Social movements as a field of research in the human sciences
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2012v4n7p7Keywords:
Social movements, Collective action, Public spaceAbstract
This article intends to give an overview of some issues involved in the research of social movements based on the current literature in the Social Sciences. Having as a starting point questions raised by the dichotomy between “old” and “new” social movements, a widespread trend in the late seventies, this article focus on some central themes that have being object of attention by theorists and researchers. Therefore, it approaches questions like the process of collective actor formation, mobilizations and construction of demands, public space, interactions between the people who are mobilized and the State, and the process of transnacionalization and its effects on the analysis of collective action.
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