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Animal Rights Activism: a Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements

By Jonas , Jacobsson , Kerstin;Lindblom

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9789089647641, 9089647643, 9789048525485, 9048525489
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
775 kB (793593 bytes)
Pages
160\145
Time added
2020-11-29 04:09:51

Description

We’re in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Kerstin Jacobsson and Jonas Lindblom use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim’s sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phenomenon—and morality itself as a social fact—the book complements more structural, cultural, or strategic action–based approaches, even as it also demonstrates the continuing value of classical sociological approaches to understanding contemporary society.

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