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Social movements are one of the principal social forms through which collectivities give voice to their grievances and concerns about the rights, welfare, and well-being of themselves and others by engaging in various types of collective action, such as protesting in the streets, that dramatize those grievances and concerns and demand that something be done about them.
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direct network ties, nonmovement actors, homeless social movement organizations, mobilized challengers, protest policing, discursive opportunity structures, collective behavior tradition, biographical consequences, collective behavior paradigm, macrohistorical factors, social movement spillover, contentious innovations, social movement sector, political process approach, nationalist social movements, social movement leadership, social movement scholarship, peace movement organizations, social movement outcomes, tactical repertoires, social movement analysts, reactive mobilization, collective action frames, protest diffusion, social movement actors
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New York, American Sociological Review, Cambridge University Press, United States, University of Chicago Press, University of Minnesota Press, Oxford University Press, American Journal of Sociology, University of California Press, Western Europe, Temple University Press, Princeton University Press, New Haven, Yale University Press, Cold War, Charles Tilly, Free Press, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Sidney Tarrow, Comparative Perspectives, Bert Klandermans, Harvard University Press, Hanspeter Kriesi, Freedom Summer
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