Self, Identity, and Social Movements

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Sheldon Stryker, Timothy Joseph Owens, Robert W. White
U of Minnesota Press, 2000 - Social Science - 370 pages
Bridging psychology and sociology, this volume demonstrates the importance of self, identity, and self-esteem in analyzing and understanding social movements. The scholars gathered here provide a cohesive picture of how self and identity bear on social movement recruitment, activism, and maintenance. The result is a timely contribution to the social movements literature and to a greater understanding of the social and psychological forces at work within them.
 

Contents

Identity Work Processes in the Context of Social
41
Group Identification and Political Protest
68
Personal Identity
93
SelfChange in Social Movements
110
Social and Collective Identity
132
Group Distinctiveness Social Identification and Collective
153
Contemplating Collectivism
172
Self and SelfEsteem
191
Social Movements as Collective Coping with Spoiled
215
Social Movements
239
From Shame to Pride in Identity Politics
252
Emotions and Identity in Womens SelfHelp Movements
271
A Biographical
300
Personal and Collective Identities and LongTerm Social
324
Contributors
347
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