The Social Lens: Insights on Institutions, Inequality, and Innovation

The consequences of social movements remain an area that has not been studied with sufficient methodological and systematic rigor. The existing scholarship in this domain is inadequate for fully understanding the impact of social movements and the processes or means employed to achieve their goals. This book focuses on the means-end analysis of social movements. It is divided into two parts: Types of Consequences and Comparative Perspectives . Comprising ten essays on different types of protest movements, the book seeks to establish the link between means and ends. Most of the essays take William A. Gamson’s 1975 work, Strategy of Social Protest , as a benchmark, critically examining the question of consequences through the theories and hypotheses presented in that work. The book begins with a historical account of past research, future challenges, and potential developments by Marco Giugni. He distinguishes between earlier studies on social movements, which primarily focused on thei...

Recently plebiscite was carried out in Crimea and it voted to join Russia and the world seemed to be divided into two poles again. The vicious and tensed memory of cold war again emerged in the minds of the people of whole world who have inclinations to see the international events. It was the part of same country which decided not to remain part of erstwhile USSR. The representation of nation-state in a homogeneous and undifferentiated monolith manner was questioned by the dominant narrative of the people of Ukraine. So, there is somewhere fragmented set of relationships between institutions with complex and uneven relationships, which is not represented in 'everyday' discourses by dominant narratives of state. These narratives are not only found in secessionist movement but also the people at periphery struggles to voice their discontent in dominant narratives be it gender, race or any other discriminated subjects. The problem emerged from the universalisation of discou...