approach, it prompts a new set of research questions regarding the larger dynamics of social movement demobilization. As the author suggests in the conclusion, comparative studies of the survival and death of movement organizations can provide a fresh lens to assess the complex relationship between repression and social movements. One application of this approach could be a comparison of radica...

A social movement consists of organisations that are linked together by a common purpose or issue (the protection of the natural environment, in the case of the environmental movement). Competition between social movement organisations for members, resources and attention can be conceptualised using multi-organisational fields, and the explicit incorporation of network theory enables an underst...

Disease-specific funding activism in the US has required health social movements (HSMs) to draw on both structural and cultural resources in order to persuade audiences and to redefine dominant conceptions of disease. Using a social constructionist analysis of Congressional testimony and media accounts of breast cancer funding activism between 1990-1993, this paper demonstrates that the use of ...

Social movements organized around perceived threats to health play an important role in American life as advocates for change in health policies and health behaviors. This article employs a framework drawn from social movement and related sociological theories to compare two such movements: the smoking/tobacco control movement and the gun control movement. A major purpose of the article is to i...

This paper discusses popular participation in health from the point of view of an experience in dengue epidemic control in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It refers specifically to a social movement called "Se Liga, Leopoldina", combining professionals (from health services and public schools) and members of popular organizations from the suburban neighborhoods ser...

INSTITUTIONALIZING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: THE SPREAD OF U.S. RECYCLING ADVOCACY GROUPS Michael Lounsbury Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations and Department of Sociology In this paper, I study how social movements become institutionalized through an examination of the diffusion of U.S. recycling advocacy groups. While the literature on social movements has interpreted social mov...

in the middle of the nineteenth century, iran was shaken by a series of serious upheavals caused by the babi movement . some scholars like ivanov have emphasized on social and economic factors and examined this phenomen from a marxist viewpoint . in this paper, moojan momen makes a more detailed analysis than any made hitherto of these upheavals and criticises the marxist viewpoint.

BACKGROUND Event related desynchronization (ERD) of mu waves, or mu suppression, over sensorimotor cortex has been observed in response to self-generated movement, viewing movement, or imaging movement. Mu suppression is especially pronounced when the movement has social relevance and is being generated by a biological entity indicating successful social adaptation. And since social adaptation ...

When ideas and tools move from one field to another, the movement is generally from the natural to the social sciences. In recent years, however, there has been a major movement in the opposite direction. The idea of centrality and the tools for its measurement were originally developed in the social science field of social network analysis. But currently the concept and tools of centrality are...