Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities

by John Lofland

The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations relating to them. Included are discussions of such basic questions What causes SMOs and why do people join them? What are the beliefs and practices of SMOs? What effect do SMOs have, and what are the social reactions to them?

421 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1996