The aim of this book is to bring together classical, recent and contemporary analyses of the social movement phenomenon. Analysis is represented in several variants of its discursive form: the expository essay, the critique, the general theory, the specific case study and the futuristic meditation.

Inhalt
Preface; R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - PART 1: CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVES - The General Will; R.E.Park - The Religion of Progress; A.Salomon - PART 2: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES - Social Movements and Social Order; R.Heberle - Social Movements; H.Blumer - Dramaturgy and Social Movements: The Social Construction and Communication of Power; R.D.Benford & S.A.Hunt - PART 3: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES: DEBATES AND CRITIQUES - What's So New About New Social Movements?; D.Plotke - Collective Protest: A Critique of Resource Mobilization Theory; F.F.Piven & R.Cloward - Social Movement Research in the United States: A European Perspective; M.Mayer - PART 4: CONTEMPORARY STUDIES - It Happened Here: Political Opportunity, the New Institutionalism, and the Townsend Movement; E.Amenta & Y.Zylan - Ideology as Episodic Discourse: The Case of the Iranian Revolution; M.Moaddel - AIDS, The Politically Correct, and Social Theory; D.Harris - Environmentalism and Human Emancipation; R.Brulle - PART 5: THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS - Rethinking the Sixties Legacy: From New Left to New Social Movements; C.Boggs - The Left as the Counter-Culture of Modernity; Z.Bauman - Beyond Social Movements?; A.Touraine - PART 6: CODA: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT - Social Theory and Social Movements: Sociology as Sociodicy; S.M.Lyman - Index