ABSTRACT
The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations relating to them. Included are discussions of such basic questions as: What causes SMOs and why do people join them? What are the beliefs and practices of SMOs? What effect do SMOs have, and what are the social reactions to them?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|20 pages
Introduction:
What Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) Are and Why People Study Them
part I|2 pages
Procedures:
part II|256 pages
Propositions:
part III|8 pages
Perspectives:
