Abstract

NUNES, Cristina. The social movement concept under debate: from the sixties to the present day. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2014, n.75, pp.131-147. ISSN 0873-6529.  https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2014753579.

Departing from the notion of social movement advanced by the theories of resource mobilization, political process and new social movements, the article aims to trace different analytical paths traversed by the studies on social movements and collective action. In this discussion it’s considered the hypothesis that over the past few decades, as the macro-structural approaches were giving way to contributions more focused on the micro-social processes and features of social movements, the debate around the concept of social movement may have lost the relevance assumed by earlier analysis developed during the 1960s and 1970s.

Keywords : theoretical paradigms; collective action; social movements.

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