Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion (People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P)

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides--as well as the efforts to bridge them--closely parallel those in the discipline of soci More »