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Book SynopsisPresents two papers on methodological issues facing the study of social movements. This work includes four papers on specific social movements or social movement organizations, two papers on aspects of social change and inequality, and one study critically analyzing the conflict resolution prospects in a situation of protracted violence.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Methods and the Study of Social Movements. Methods, movements and outcomes: methodological difficulties in the study of extra-movement outcomes (J. Earl). In newspapers we trust? Assessing the credibility of news sources that cover protest campaigns (E. Swank). Case Studies in Social Movements. Framing the nonproliferation debate: transnational activism and international nuclear weapons negotiations (J. Smith). Mega hog farms in the Texas Panhandle region: corporate actions and local resistance (A. Bonanno, D.H. Constance). Coalition work among environmental groups: who participates? (M.B. Shaffer). Technology, honesty, and work: the Peruvian small-scale industrialists, 1971-1992 (O. Celle de Bowman). Social Inequalities and Social Change. Ethnic economies and social policy (S.J. Gold, I. Light). Labor market segmentation and the cultural division of labor in the copper mining industry, 1880-1920 (T. Boswell, J. Brueggemann). Palestinian Islamism and Israeli-Palestinian peace (R. Reuveny).
