The need to develop empirically-based interventions to reduce anti-Muslim prejudice, or “Islamophobia,” has become increasingly salient in multicultural societies. In the present literature review, I present a theoretical framework for understanding this specific form of prejudice, a framework based on sociological research documenting that people perceive Islam as a monolithic bloc, static and...

It is difficult to grasp the nature of social movements. 1 They cannot be reduced to specific insurrections or revolts, but rather resemble strings of more or less connected events, scattered across time and space; nor can they be identified with any specific organization, rather, they consist of groups and organizations, with various levels of formalization, linked in patterns of interaction w...

In Western democracies, popular political radicalism declined in the wake of the protest cycle of the 1960s and 1970s. What appeared instead is a ‘‘social movement society,’’ where protest becomes increasingly institutionalized and ‘‘civic’’ rather than disruptive. As the editors of the volume The Social Movement Society put it, ‘‘although disruption appears to be the most effective political t...

It has been demonstrated that brief exposure to behavioral information is sufficient for making accurate social judgments. Movement coordination during social interaction, is one potential cue. Although coordination between individuals has been identified, our ability to perceive it when making judgments regarding affiliation (friends vs. strangers) is unknown. In the present studies, we invest...

Social movement organizations often struggle to mobilize supporters from allied movements in their efforts to achieve critical mass. The authors argue that organizations with hybrid identities--those whose organizational identities span the boundaries of two or more social movements, issues, or identities--are vital to mobilizing these constituencies. They use original data from their study of ...

the iranian “new wave” filmmakers started to pay attention to social changes during the pahlavi regime. imperial pahlavi successfully suppressed his political oppositions in decade of 1332-1342 (hijri shamsi) and spread a social reform during the following decades in 40’s to 50’s. the iranian cinematic movement that was called new wave by some persian film critics because of its similarly to th...

This paper, based on in-depth interviews with thirty-three individuals involved in the burgeoning Menstrual Activism movement, explores why the identity ‘activist’ is resisted among some social movement actors. Drawing on a ‘perfect standard’ of politics and activism grounded in the core values of rigor and humility, an activist must ‘live the issue’, demonstrate relentless dedication, and cont...

This paper examines planned community markets in New Delhi, India and proposes that the spatial and configurational properties of the markets as embedded in the urban grid can, in part, explain their observed social and economic differences. Shopping is considered as a social activity, and the choices made by shopper and shop to visit or to locate in a particular area together constitute an ‘in...