Social Movements and Social Classes: The Future of Collective Action

by Louis Maheu (Editor)

Overview

Internationally eminent contributors to this book focus on issues of social movements and social class from the perspective of collective action. An important addition to current debate, the text discusses such topics as: middle-class radicalism, racism, class, the institutionalization of movements, urban politics, citizenship, education and democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803979536
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/08/1995
Series:	SAGE Studies in International Sociology , #47
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louis Maheu is Professor of Sociology and Vice-Dean of the Graduate Faculty at Université de Montréal. His recent books include La Recomposition du Politique (1991) and Hommage à Marcel Rioux: Sociologie Critique, Création Artistique et Société Contemporaine (editor, 1992)

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Maheu: Social Movements and Social Classes

Klaus Eder Humboldt University Berlin &

European University Institute Fiesole

Alberto Melucci University of Milan

Jan Pakulski University of Tasmania Hobart

Chris Pickvance University of Kent

Maurice Roche University of Sheffield

Chris Rootes University of Kent

Alain Touraine CADIS Paris

John Urry University of Lancaster

Michel Wieviorka CADIS Paris

Table of Contents

Introduction - Louis Maheu
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION
Does Social Class Matter in the Study of Social Movements? - Klaus Eder
A Theory of Middle-Class Radicalism
Social Movements and Class - Jan Pakulski
The Decline of the Marxist Paradigm
Racism and Social Movements - Michel Wieviorka
The New Social Movements Revisited - Alberto Melucci
Reflections on a Sociological Misunderstanding
PART TWO: SPACE, POWER AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
Social Movements in the Transition from State Socialism - Chris Pickvance
Convergence or Divergence?
Social Movements and the Challenge of Urban Politics - Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Louis Maheu
Rethinking Class - John Urry
PART THREE: COLLECTIVE ACTION: FROM POLITICS TO DEMOCRACY
Rethinking Citizenship and Social Movements - Maurice Roche
Themes in Contemporary Sociology and Neoconservative Ideology
A New Class? The Higher Educated and the New Politics - Chris Rootes
Collective Action and the Paradigm of Individualism - Pierre Hamel
Democracy - Alain Touraine
From a Politics of Citizenship to a Politics of Recognition

Editorial Reviews

‘This book includes the work of twelve authors and many different topics are discussed... The chapters of the book were originally papers presented in Madrid in 1990 at the conference of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Social Movements and Social Classes Research. Since then, the authors have rewritten their contributions, and what is especially interesting is that they have commented on the contributions in the other chapters. This means that most chapters not only present the ideas of the individual authors, but also comment on and engage in a dialogue with the other contributions. In this way the book reveals the variation in the field of social movements and classes and the process has forced the authors to sharpen their arguments. The result is that the book is a presentation of a debate, but it does not provide definite answers. Rather, it mirrors the constant attempts to grasp the different theories and empirical studies of this field' - Acta Sociologica

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