Contemporary Social Movements
Historical and Descriptive Accounts
$93.17
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
9 May 2026
Summary
Presents an essential guide to understanding the dynamics of today’s global social movements
Contemporary Social Movements: Descriptive & Historical Accounts responds to the urgent need for comprehensive, accessible overviews of the most consequential social movements shaping our world. Edited by renowned scholars in the field of social movements, this timely volume offers rich, empirically grounded, and historically situated portraits of 33 major contemp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781394300334 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1394300336 |
| Author: | David A. Snow, Doug McAdam, Dana M. Moss |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 213mm x 272mm |
David A. Snow
DAVID A. SNOW is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. A recipient of multiple lifetime achievement awards, he has published extensively on social movements, collective behavior, and homelessness, with over 150 scholarly articles and 12 books.
DOUG McADAM is Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford University and former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. A widely cited political sociologist, he is the author or co-author of 18 books and more than 100 articles.
DANA M. MOSS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Her research examines resistance to authoritarianism, diaspora mobilization, and repression in transnational contexts. She is the author of The Arab Spring Abroad and numerous academic articles.
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