New Theories of Social Movements

New Social Movements Theory: The Debate

The purpose of this brief report is to identify and explain the new social movements debate, focusing on its nature and primary tenets. According to Barker, the current debate in new social movements theory centers around the activist and academic forms of new social movement theorizing (1-8).

New Social Movements theory has currently been revisited in light of events that have occurred over the last decade or so. Barker states that in its more academic form, new social movements theory tended to align itself with the revolutionary, leftist movements of the lat

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