Description
Product ID: | 9780745660851 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | What is Sociology? |
Title: | What is a Social Movement? |
Authors: | Author: Hank Johnston |
Page Count: | 176 |
Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology, Political ideologies and movements, Political ideologies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and Islamic fundamentalism are all movements with far-reaching impacts on contemporary society. |
Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-02-28 |