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The Sociology of Social Movements

Joseph Ambrose Banks

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Description:The author critically examines the study of social movements which has been hitherto dominated by the structural-functional approach. He adopts an alternative 'action' frame of reference. This regards social movements as 'social technologies' or invention mechanisms which are essentially the same as all material invention mechanisms. Thus defined, they are seen as not merely the creatures of social change, but rather the creators of this change. The author regards social movements as being historically specific, believing that they do not thrive in traditional societies but are as dependent as scientific developments on the emergence of the Puritan and capitalist ethics. The nineteenth-century Co-operative movements are therefore classified as being of a different genre from, for example, medieval so-called movements which were not 'socially creative.'The author examines the methods of diffusion of innovation and concludes that this process is essentially the same as in the diffusion of technological processes. The final section of the book is devoted to an examination of the relationship of social movements to social change. The author recognizes the existence of other factors which produce social change, and he evaluates his new action frame of reference and those of the Marxists and the Parsonian functionalists for the study of the this phenomenon.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sociology of Social Movements. To get started finding The Sociology of Social Movements, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The author critically examines the study of social movements which has been hitherto dominated by the structural-functional approach. He adopts an alternative 'action' frame of reference. This regards social movements as 'social technologies' or invention mechanisms which are essentially the same as all material invention mechanisms. Thus defined, they are seen as not merely the creatures of social change, but rather the creators of this change. The author regards social movements as being historically specific, believing that they do not thrive in traditional societies but are as dependent as scientific developments on the emergence of the Puritan and capitalist ethics. The nineteenth-century Co-operative movements are therefore classified as being of a different genre from, for example, medieval so-called movements which were not 'socially creative.'The author examines the methods of diffusion of innovation and concludes that this process is essentially the same as in the diffusion of technological processes. The final section of the book is devoted to an examination of the relationship of social movements to social change. The author recognizes the existence of other factors which produce social change, and he evaluates his new action frame of reference and those of the Marxists and the Parsonian functionalists for the study of the this phenomenon.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sociology of Social Movements. To get started finding The Sociology of Social Movements, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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