- Title
- Shaping society from below social movements, social policy and development
- Creator
- Alfers, Laura C
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/478194
- Identifier
- vital:78163
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781785368424
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785368431.00010
- Description
- One of the lasting legacies of Marxist thought for the study of state and society is the idea that social change and the way this change is institutionalized through the state, in its regulations, laws and policies is a result of the contestation of social forces. Running through this are questions about the interplay of structure and agency, power and the response to power, and debates about whether, how and under what conditions organized groups of the less powerful can use their relative numerical dominance to engage with more powerful interests to improve their situation. The concern with how forces from below initiate, engage with, challenge and/or resist social change has characterized a wideranging academic literature, crossing multiple disciplinary boundaries. The result has been a large and diverse body of scholarship on what are known as social movements, which are broadly defined by Tilly (2004) as groups of ordinary people who mobilize around a common interest to make collective claims on others. While much social movement scholarship is focused on groups of people organizing for greater social and economic inclusion, it is important to acknowledge that social movements can also mobilize around issues that are considered exclusionary (for example, neo-Nazi groups, anti-immigration and religious fundamentalism).
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- ElgarOnline
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Alfers, L., 2019. 3. Shaping society from below: social movements, social policy and development. Midgley, James and Rebecca Surender and Laura Alfers (edits) Handbook of Social Policy and Development, published by Edward Elgar, pp.54-70
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