Abstract: Social movements can be defined as collective action with some stability over time and some degree of organization, oriented towards change or conservation of society or some sphere of it. The idea of social movements tends to move between two poles in social theory. One is the vision of social movements as collective action responding to specific tensions or a contradiction in society and oriented towards resolving that specific contradiction. The other is social movement as bearers of the meaning of history and the incarnation and the main agent of global social change.2
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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