The sociology of dissent /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denisoff, R. Serge (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1974]
New York : [1974]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to social movements
  • Social movements / Herbert Blumer
  • The theme of contemporary social movements / Ralph H. Turner
  • 2. Two approaches to social movements
  • Theoretical issues of scope and problems / Neil J. Smelser
  • Movements and motives : some unresolved issues in the psychology of social movements / Joseph F. Zygmunt
  • The theories of the American student protest movements / Jack Douglas
  • 3. Ideology and social movements
  • Left and Right : assumptions of ideological polarity / Silvan Tomkins
  • Some observations on ideological groups / Vadimir C. Nahirny
  • Oil in Santa Barbara and power in America / Harvey Molotch
  • The end of ideology? / Seymour Martin Lipset
  • 4. The extreme Left
  • On being strangled by the Stars and Stripes : the new Left, the old Left, and the natural history of American radical movements / Armand L. Mauss
  • Social and cultural meanings of student revolt : some informal comparative observations / Richard Flacks
  • The significance of extremism in the Black revolution / Lewis M. Killian
  • The origins of the women's liberation movement / Jo Freeman
  • 5. The radical Right
  • Toward a definition of the extreme Right / Gary B. Bush
  • Populist influences on American Fascism / Victor C. Ferkiss
  • The Wallace whitelash / Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab
  • 6. Repression of dissent
  • Social deviance and political marginality : toward a redefinition of the relation between sociology and politics / Irving Louis Horowitz and Martin Liebowitz
  • The Communist party and anti-Communism / David Shannon
  • Collective police violence / Rodney Stark
  • Politics of confrontation / H.L. Nieburg
  • 7. Revolution
  • Albert Camus : the nature of political rebellion / Terry Hoy
  • Revolution
  • typology and process / George Pettee
  • Theories of revolution / Lawrence Stone.