Social Movements And Culture

by Hank Johnston (Editor)

Overview

A full-length analysis of social movements from a cultural perspective. This work considers the different approaches to culture, how movements are affected by their cultural environment and internal cultures within the movements themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134224098
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Hank Johnston, Bert Klandermans

Table of Contents

Part 1 Conceptions of culture in social movement analysis: the cultural analysis of social movements, Hank Johston and Bert Klandermans; cultural power and social movements, Ann Swidler; the process of collective identity, Alberto Melucci; rhetorical psychology, ideological thinking and imagining nationhood, Michael Billig. Part 2 Cultural processes in mobilization: constructing social protest, William A. Gamson; what's in a name? - nationaist movementys and public discourse, Jane Jenson; public narration and group culture - discerning discourse in social movements, Gary Alan Fine; culture in rebellion - the appropriation and transformation of the veil in the Algerian revolution, Rick Fantasia and Eric L. Hirsch. Part 3 Cultural analysis of social movements: analytical approaches to social movement culture - the culture of the women's movement, Verta Taylor and Nancy Whittier; charting degrees of movement culture - tasks of the cultural cartographer, John Lofland; a methodology for frame analysis - from discourse to cognitive schemata, Hank Johnston.