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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"New Social Movement Theory"”.
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New social movement theory and the reparations movement in Northern Ireland: The case of the WAVE Injured Group and its Campaign for Recognition
… a sociological case study, the struggle for social change from one particular group of victims based in post-violence Northern Ireland: the WAVE Injured Group and its Campaign for Recognition. To offset their relative power imbalance, this new social movement engaged in contentious …
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Social movement theory and far right organizations
<p>This research examines the organized far right movement and interviews members of four right wing organizations to understand their goals and operations. This study compares the utility of two social movement theories, Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) and New Social Movement Theory (NSMT) to …
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Eco-spirituality: Collective identity and spirituality in the wilderness action group
At a peripheral glance the collective action of a social movement group creates a perception of rational and homogenous internal group identity. This façade has led some social movement theorists to take for granted the internal cohesiveness of the groups they are studying. Yet this emphasis on the …
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Face Paint & Feathers: Ethnic Identity as Symbolic Resource in the Indigenous Movement of Ecuador
… cultures. Since the 1990s, the indigenous movement of Ecuador has played out in the international arena and become a transnational movement, which includes social actors from the international legal, human rights, and environmental communities. This transnational movement exemplifies …
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New social movements, Claus Offe, and environmental groups in British Columbia
New Social Movement Theory characterizes post 1960's protest movements such as the peace, environment and women's movement as being distinctively different from older movements such as the workers movement. The salient differences are in the social bases from which the movements draw their …
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A Revolutionary Perspective on Social Movements: Fundamentalism in the Islamic World
… surge in the number of Islamic fundamentalist movements, and there has not been a concise reason as to why. The main objective of this research is to determine the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, and, in so showing that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is inherently a social movement. To …