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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Social Movement Theories"”.
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Context, Opportunities and Threats: A Comparative Analysis of the KDP and the PUK in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq
… of the conceptual tools of contemporary social movement theories, this study shows that shifts in the local, national, regional and international political contextual factors, along with the rational agents’ competency and cost-benefit-calculations and the resources at their disposal—and, …
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An assessment of how well social movement theory explains the emergence and development of Rape Crisis Cape Town
This thesis uses three social movement theories to analyse the growth and development of Rape Crisis Cape Town (Rape Crisis). Rape Crisis provides counselling to rape victims, education and advocacy. The thesis also uses Rape Crisis to assess the analytic power of these theories, which were …
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Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt: A rhetorical study of the transformation of an epidemic through social movement
… artifact and centerpiece of the current AIDS movement. The methodology for this study is an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic design, utilizing interviews with four Quilt volunteers and staffers, including my observations as a person living with AIDS. This study looks at the Quilt using …
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Utilizing Social Movement Theory to Examine Three Salafi Jihadist Groups, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS: the Resource Mobilization Approach of Charles Tilly
This dissertation applies the social movement theory of resource mobilization to examine three Salafi jihadist movements, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Originally presented in the early 1970s, Charles Tilly's resource mobilization approach within the social movement theories focuses on the …
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Collective action for the rights of sex offenders: evaluating social movement organizations
… who have been convicted of a sex offense. A social movement, made up of registrants and their family members, has sprung up across the country to address the resulting consequences that have ensued from these policies. State organizations are now working towards policy change for these …
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Interactive Framing Dynamics and Ideological Boundaries in the American Abortion Debate
… of the American pro-life and pro-choice movements and the process whereby movements borrow and co-opt language and imagery from opposing movements. Illustrated by two case studies of reactive and strategic counterframing in the pro-choice and pro-life movements, I show how such framing …
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Streetwise for book smarts : culture, community organizing, and education reform in the Bronx
… in their campaigns. In the literature on social movement organizations, such differences are usually attributed to variations in political context, or variations in resources. This dissertation builds on currently dominant social movement theories by investigating how cultural norms inside …
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Political organisation, leadership and communication in authoritarian settings: Digital activism in Belarus and Russia
… as the management of leadership visibility on social media, allowed activist groups to protect some of their leaders from persecution. The findings contribute to the discussion regarding the nature of political organising in the digital age by refining and problematising social movement …
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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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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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Illegal aliens out! : making sociological sense of the new restrictionist frame
… generated renewed interest in restrictionist social movements (RSMs). Sociological social movement theories focused primarily on oppressed populations rather than privileged groups, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of right-wing movements. This dissertation‘s main question is: how …
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State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010
… And finally, to what extent are available social movement theories capable of explaining the Iranian case? In "State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010" I engage theories of social movements and contentious politics in order to examine the emergence, development, and likely …
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This Woman's Work: The Sociopolitical Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
… of Pittsburgh during the 1960s Black Student Movement, and later as a mental health advocate near the end of her life in 2006. It also analyzes Campbell's first and final novels, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine and 72 Hour Hold (2005) and the direct relationship between her novels and her activist …
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Exploring the pattern of Islamic social movements : four case studies
This thesis is a study of Iranian-Islamic social movements. Iran has witnessed four major social movements in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Except for the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 which attracted a great deal of sociological attention, and the Constitutional Revolution which has …