The Social Movements Reader

Synopsis

The Social Movements Reader, Second Edition, provides the most important and readable articles and book selections on recent social movements from around the world.

• With selected readings and editorial material this book combines the strengths of a reader and a textbook
  
• Reflects new developments in the study of social movements, both empirical and theoretical
  
• Provides original texts, many of them classics in the field of social movements, which have been edited for the non-technical reader
  
• Sidebars offer concise definitions of key terms as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movements
  
• Requires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements