Snow, david a primer on social movements pdf download

Award-winning sociologists David Snow and Sarah Soule draw from a broad range of theories including political sociology, theories of organizations, and the study of culture and social interaction to introduce the essential ideas for analyzing social movements.

Sociology Social Movements Academic Nonfiction. More Details. Snow 11 books 2 followers. Search review text. Caio Major. What it says on the tin. Thorough, about as dry as you'd expect from the title. Research up through the early s is discussed and referenced in short chapters that present the basic study variables and develop some of the theoretical story lines for researching them.

Examples are taken from well known examples of social movements - very well known examples. The general logic of this book involves defining the object of study, considering what precipitates the beginning of movements, what conditions support or impede them, considering the degree of popular participation, and studying the dynamics by which movements proceed and evolve.

These apply to social movements of all sorts, irrespective of their size, duration, or participants. This book appears to function as a monograph for an undergrad social theory class. Perhaps it could have a place in a graduate seminar but that would be a stretch and would certainly need to be accompanied by research articles. The theory seems a bit thin with very few counterintuitive insights.

The examples are well known, if not common knowledge. I expected more. Do we really need to know that Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela were all associated with social movements? Towards the end, the authors take up questions of movement dynamics and leadership. The discussion here is more interesting.

The discussion of strategic and agency issues also has some content to it, but definitive positions are lacking and one is left with the notion that social movement dynamics are complex. Martin Sheeks. Good book for covering the general theories behind social movements. Could benefit from a different editor. Very accessible introduction to analyzing social movements. Responsibility David A. Snow and Sarah A. Edition 1st ed. Imprint New York : W. Physical description x, p. Series Contemporary societies.

Available online. Full view. Green Library. S Unknown. More options. Find it at other libraries via WorldCat Limited preview. Contributor Soule, Sarah Anne, Bibliography Includes bibliographical references p. Summary Award-winning sociologists David Snow and Sarah Soule draw from a broad range of theories including political sociology, theories of organisations and the study of culture and social interaction to introduce the essential ideas for analysing social movements.

Subjects Social movements. Collective behavior. Organizational sociology.