A movement society: Contentious politics for a new century
DS Meyer, S Tarrow - … society: Contentious politics for a new …, 1998 - books.google.com
It is October 1964 in Berkeley, California. On Sproul Plaza, outside the administration
building of the University of California, a sprawling crowd of students surrounds and
immobilizes a car full of police to prevent them from taking a student activist off to jail (Heirich
1971, chap. 6). Laughing gaily at their ability to immobilize the dreaded Berkeley police
force, the students sing civil rights songs, a few pass out joints, and together they begin to
form the collective identity that would eventuate in the Free Speech Movement. Without …
building of the University of California, a sprawling crowd of students surrounds and
immobilizes a car full of police to prevent them from taking a student activist off to jail (Heirich
1971, chap. 6). Laughing gaily at their ability to immobilize the dreaded Berkeley police
force, the students sing civil rights songs, a few pass out joints, and together they begin to
form the collective identity that would eventuate in the Free Speech Movement. Without …
[BOOK][B] The social movement society: Contentious politics for a new century
DS Meyer, SG Tarrow - 1998 - books.google.com
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s,
and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody
protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings
together scholars from Europe and the US, and from both political science and sociology, to
consider the ways in which the social movement has changed as a political form and the
ways in which it continues to change the societies in which it is prevalent.
and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody
protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings
together scholars from Europe and the US, and from both political science and sociology, to
consider the ways in which the social movement has changed as a political form and the
ways in which it continues to change the societies in which it is prevalent.