Animal rights activism : a moral-sociological perspective on social movements /
This book develops a novel moral-sociological perspective on social movements. For the first time, Durkheim's sociology of morality is used for social movement theorizing. Nevertheless, Durkheim's approach is used as a basis for further theorization, including developing a deviance perspec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Protest and social movements.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book develops a novel moral-sociological perspective on social movements. For the first time, Durkheim's sociology of morality is used for social movement theorizing. Nevertheless, Durkheim's approach is used as a basis for further theorization, including developing a deviance perspective on social movements. The moral-sociological framework is also useful for theorizing the role of moral reflexivity and emotion work among activists. 0This book fills a gap in existing approaches to social movements by seeing social movements as essentially moral phenomena and by conceiving of morality as a social fact, which both enables and constrains the action that activists can pursue. By doing so, it complements existing more structural, cultural or strategic action-inspired approaches to social movements. In addition, the book richly illustrates how classical sociological theory can be used in new ways to understand contemporary societies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9789048525485 9048525489 |