1st Edition
Protest Studies of Collective Behaviour and Social Movements
By John Lofland
Copyright 1985
364 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume addresses three major issues: What are the circumstances in which people elect to protest; what are the forms of such action; and how do people organize to do so? Phrased differently, what are the contexts of protest (collective behavior), personal readiness for protest (conversion), and finally joining together for protest in movement organizations and movement strategies. The key... Read more
Introduction Protest and the Public Arena; One: Collective Behavior: Contexts of Protest; Introduction; 1: Elementary Forms of Collective Behavior (1981); 2: Crowd Joys (1982); 3: The Youth Ghetto: Age Segregation and Conflict in the American Sixties (1968); Two: Conversion: Readiness for Protest; Introduction; 4: Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective (1965); 5: Becoming a World-Saver Revisited (1977); 6: Conversion Motifs (1981); Three: Movement Organization: Associating for Protest; Introduction; 7: Religious Movement Organizations: Elementary Forms and Dynamics (1984); 8: Social Movement Locals: Modal Member Structures (1984); 9: Social Movement Culture (1985); 10: White-Hot Mobilization: Strategies of a Millenarian Movement (1979); 11: Mankind United (1970); Four: Movement Action: Doing Protest; INTRODUCTION: Movement Action and Protest; 12: Social Struggle and the Protest Occupation (1982); 13: Sociologists as an Interest Group: Prospect and Propriety (1981); 14: Crowd Lobbying (1982); 15: Symbolic Sit-Ins (1982)
Biography
John Lofland
