TOPAL DEMİROĞLU, Elif Marmara Üniversitesi - Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi - Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Turkey

New Social Movements: A Literature Review

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From the 1960s onward hierarchical and centrally organized social movements of past have been replaced by more flexible, decentralized and heterogeneous structures with transformations occurred in political and social areas. Although they did not break with the past movements completely, these movements entail novel features with respect to their actors, organizational structures, objectives, values, strategies and methods. Alongside these transformations, new perspectives analyzing new social movements have emerged within the field of the social movements literature. This study aims to review the new social movements literature focusing on the analyses of some prominent thinkers of this approach.

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Social movements , new social movements , literature review

Journal Of Political Science

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