Social movements : a cognitive approach /
Social movements are seen in terms of a social theory of knowledge that is politically and historically informed. The book argues that they are forms of activity whereby individuals create new kinds of social identities not only for themselves, but for the societies of which they are a part
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Cambridge :
Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell,
1991
Cambridge, UK : Polity, c1991 Cambridge : 1991 |
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Table of Contents:
- Social movements and sociology
- Social movements as cognitive praxis
- Dimensions of cognitive praxis
- Social movements and their intellectuals
- A case study: the American civil rights movement
- Social movements in context
- Conclusions