Social movements are not only a potential challenge to societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social movements and social movement r

Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, rem

Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of authoritative accounts of theoris

Scholars in the area of social action present new theories about this process, fashioning a social psychology of social movements that goes beyond theories curr

Although grass-roots social movements are an important force of social and political change, they quite often fail to achieve their lofty goals. Similarly, the