Political Science Social Policy
Organizing Dissent
Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice, Second Edition
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1997
- Category
- Social Policy, General, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551930022
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $48.95
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Description
Published Under the Garamond Imprint
When first published in 1992, this major collection rapidly established itself as the leading text on Social Movements to be published in North America. An effective blend of theory and applied case studies makes the book a valuable teaching tool, as well as providing key background material for activists and social policy makers.
About the author
William K. Carroll is a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he served as founding director of the Social Justice Studies Program (2008-2012). Among his recent books are The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century, Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication (co-authored with Bob Hackett), Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times and Critical Strategies for Social Research. He has won the Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Prize twice for his books on the structure of corporate power in Canada. He is a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, an associate editor of the journal Socialist Studies and a member of the International Network of Scholar Activists.
Kanchan Sarker has a PhD in sociology from the University of North Bengal and teaches at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. He has also taught at York University, the University of Windsor, the University of Waterloo and Cleveland University. He was a researcher at the Sociological Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, from 1990-2001. He studies social movements, social inequality, globalization and neoliberalism, and has published several papers in national and international journals.