SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Volume 52 No. 4 (Winter 1985) Arien Mack, Editor Jean L. Cohen, Guest Editor

 Notes on Contributors    Ordering information

Table of Contents

• Strategy or Identity: New Theoretical Paradigms and Contemporary Social Movements

Jean L. Cohen
 
• Models and Realities of Popular Collective Action

Charles Tilly
 
• An Introduction to the Study of Social Movements

Alain Touraine
 
• The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements

Alberto Melucci
 
• New Social Movements: Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics

Claus Offe
 
• The "New Social Movements:" Moral Crusades, Political Pressure Groups, or Social Movements?

Klaus Eder

Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)

Jean L. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and author of Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory (1982).

Klaus Eder is an Associate at the Munich Projektgruppe fur Sozialforschung.  His most recent book is Geschichte als Lernprozess? (1985).

Alberto Melucci  is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Milan as well as a practicing psychotherapist.  His most recent book is Altri Codici (1984).

Claus Offe is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bielefeld.

Charles Tilly is Director of the Center for Studies of Social Change and Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History at the New School for Social Research.  His most recent book is Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (1985).

Alain Touraine is Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.  His books include The Self- Production of Society (1977) and The Voice and the Eye (1981).

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