Open AccessHow Social Movements Matter
Author(s) -
David S. Meyer
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
contexts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6052
pISSN - 1536-5042
DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2003.2.4.30
Subject(s) - social movement , contentious politics , politics , movement (music) , social movement theory , sociology , political science , iraq war , new social movements , social activism , political economy , criminology , gender studies , law , aesthetics , philosophy
Social movement activists, such as those who protested the Iraq War, often become discouraged when their immediate goals are not attained. But research shows that such movements can have deep and long-lasting consequences for politics, society and the activists themselves.
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