Cox, Laurence (2017) The multiple traditions of social movement research: theorising intellectual diversity. Working Paper. Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme.

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Abstract

This paper reflects on the implications of the contemporary diversity of intellectual approaches to the study of social movements. Sketching some of the key dimensions of difference in the field, it explores the normative intellectual questions raised by /acknowledging this diversity as well as the intellectual history questions involved in explaining it. In a global perspective, the question of what a “social movement studies of the global South” might mean exemplifies the challenge involved. The paper draws on Aristotle’s typology of knowledge to suggest some ways of handling this situation, before concluding with some open questions.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Keywords:	social movements; sociology of knowledge; disciplinary norms; interdisciplinarity; normativity; sociology of the global South;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	8101
Depositing User:	Dr. Laurence Cox
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2017 10:06
Publisher:	Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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