Núm. 30. Analysing social movements: a comparison of European and Latin-American approaches since the 1970s
Documentos CIDOB América Latina; 30
Since the end of the 1960s, social movements have proliferated throughout the Western world and their “newness” have been stressed by sociology. Nevertheless, we observe big differences between the perspectives adopted by Social Sciences in Latin America in comparison with Europe and North America, where the theories of collective action motivated an important number of empirical researches and deep debates, especially on the model of resources mobilization. In Latin America, though, an approximation towards the values, identities and the sociology of the subject was predominant. During the period of democratization, Political Sociology placed in half the way between action and observation. This article presents these approaches, proposes some explanatory hypotheses of its differences and then underlines its continuities. In the second part, the article shows how the contributions of the “sociology of the mobilizations” is necessary to enrich the perspectives habitually spread by social movements in Latin America.
ISSN: 1697-7688 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-8137 (online edition)
44 pp.
Camille Goirand
Date of publication: 07/2009
Issue price: 8 €
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