Social Movements in an Organizational Society: Collected Essays

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This book is concerned with the carriers and fate of social movements in modern America. It presents an argument that in an organizational society the shape of social movements is closely tied to the technologies, forms, opportunities, and targets created by that society . Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Resource Mobilization Theory 1. Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory Part II: The Infrastructure of Movements 2. Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Mobilization: Infrastructure Deficits and New Technologies 3. Religious Groups as Crucibles of Social Movements 4. Organizational Intellectuals and the Criticism of Society Part III: Processes of Organizational Change 5. Social Movement Organizations: Growth, Decay, and Change 6. From Evangelism to General Services: The Transformation of the YMCA 7. Social Movement Industries: Competition and Conflict Among SMOs Part IV: Movements Within Organizations 8. Social Movements in Organizations: Coup d’Etat, Bureaucratic Insurgency, and Mass Movement 9. Aspects of Racial Integration in the Methodist Church: Sources of Resistance to Organizational Policy Part V: Movements and Countermovements 10. Movement and Countermovement Interaction: Mobilization, Tactics, and State Involvement 11. From Pressure Group to Social Movement: Efforts to Promote Use of Nuclear Power Part VI: Social Movement Sectors and the Future 12. The Political Economy of Social Movement Sectors 13. The Future of Social Movements Appendix: The Trend of Social Movements in America: Professionalization and Resource Mobilization References Index