1st Edition

Social Movement Organizations Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities

By John Lofland Copyright 1996
    438 Pages
    by Routledge

    421 Pages
    by Routledge

    The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations relating to them. Included are discussions of such basic questions as: What causes SMOs and why do people join them? What are the beliefs and practices of SMOs? What effect do SMOs have, and what are the social reactions to them?

    1: Introduction:; I: Procedures:; 2: Steps One and Two:; 3: Step Three:; 4: Step Four:; II: Propositions:; 5: What Are SMO Beliefs?; 6: How Are SMOs Organized?; 7: What Are Causes of SMOs?; 8: Why Do People Join SMOs?; 9: Dissecting Research Reports; 10: What Are Reactions to SMOs?; 11: What Are Effects of SMOs?; III: Perspectives:; 12: Dissecting Research Reports; 13: Contextual Themes

    Biography

    John Lofland