LibGuides: Sociology: Social Movements

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HM831-901 Social change

Featured Books on Social Movements

Social Movements 1768 - 2018 by Charles Tilly; Ernesto Castañeda; Lesley J. Wood
Call Number: HM881 .T55 2020

Provides the most comprehensive historical account of the birth and spread of social movements.
Change the World Without Taking Power by John Holloway
Call Number: HM471 .H65 2019

By asking the deepest questions about the nature of humanity, work, capitalism, organization and resistance, the author looks carefully at modern protest movements and provides tools for creating new strategies.
How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don't by Leslie R. Crutchfield
Call Number: HM831 .C78

Examines the leadership approaches, campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics employed in a range of modern social change campaigns.
Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Call Number: HQ1236 .R59995

Offers practical tips and to-do lists on organizing and effecting change in our own communities, advances policy solutions that will lift everyone, and shares high impact strategies that anyone can use to keep marching online and on the ground.
Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power by An Xiao Mina
Call Number: HM851 .M5454

A global exploration of the internet meme as an agent of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on and offline, and how they will save or destroy us all.
Protest Politics Today by Devashree Gupta
Call Number: HM883 .G86

A thorough introduction to the study of social movements in diverse settings, examining their structures and operations to identify the ways in which political and social contexts shape how movements behave and what impacts they have.
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
Call Number: HM742 .T84

Explains the nuanced trajectories of modern protests-how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change.
CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action by Scott Myers-Lipton
Call Number: LB3610 .M94

Written specifically for faculty and staff to use with college students with the goal of helping students bring about the change they believe is necessary to make our community a better place to live.

Search Article Databases

SocINDEX with Full-Text
Index, abstracts, and full text for articles and other publications in sociology.
Sociological Collection
Database covering information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
America: History and Life
Index covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
Women's Studies International
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.
Peace Research Abstracts
A bibliographic database essential for peace and conflict resolution research. It covers peace-related topics including nonviolence, war, international affairs and peace psychology.

Search Full-Text Periodicals

Social Movement Studies
Presents an analysis of extra-parliamentary political, cultural and social movements throughout the world.
Interface: A Journal For and About Social Movements
an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal bringing together activists from different movements and different countries, researchers working with movements, and engaged academics from different disciplines.

Suggested Web Resources

Mapping American Social Movements Project
This project from the University of Washington produces and displays free interactive maps showing the historical geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics since the late 19th century.
Pew Research Center: Protests & Uprisings
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
TED: Social Change
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of social change.