Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent RealitiesThe authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations relating to them. Included are discussions of such basic questions as: What causes SMOs and why do people join them? What are the beliefs and practices of SMOs? What effect do SMOs have, and what are the social reactions to them? |
Contents
Pertinence Practicality Passion | 25 |
ImmersionInduction in Answering Questions | 85 |
A Checklist | 92 |
PROPOSITIONS | 99 |
How Are SMOS Organized? | 139 |
What Are Causes of SMOS? | 175 |
The Dependent Variable Reemphasized | 176 |
Organizing Causal Variables | 177 |
What Are SMO Strategies? | 257 |
Similarities | 258 |
Differences | 259 |
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Factors Affecting Selection and Change of Strategies | 281 |
Effects of Strategies and SMO Success | 289 |
Other Questions and Answers about Strategy | 301 |
Notes | 303 |
Causal Logic | 179 |
MacroSMO Causal Variables | 180 |
MesoMicroSMO Causal Variables | 192 |
Causes of SMO Differences | 198 |
Sustaining Causes | 199 |
Why Do People Join SMOs? | 201 |
Four Complications in the Study of Joining | 202 |
Individual Variables | 214 |
Structural Variables | 226 |
Causal Logic Reiterated | 236 |
Membership Maintenance | 237 |
Membership Consequences | 242 |
Recruitment | 245 |
Notes | 254 |
What Are Reactions to SMOS? | 305 |
Primary Reactors and Types of Reaction | 309 |
Other Reactors | 332 |
225 | 333 |
Potpourri of Other Reactions | 336 |
Interaction | 339 |
Other Questions | 342 |
Notes | 343 |
What Are Effects of SMOs? | 345 |
PERSPECTIVES | 355 |
Contextual Themes | 365 |
References | 379 |
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