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Title: | Struggles for Recognition: Analyzing Democratization Effects of Social Movements |
Author(s): | Shelton-Boodram, Alcarcilus C. |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Carol Skalnik Leff; Dianne M. Pinderhughes |
Department / Program: | Political Science |
Discipline: | Political Science |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Sociology, Theory and Methods |
Abstract: | The objective of this work is to examine a model of social movement processes. The three traditional processes of social movements are incorporated into one model in order to allow a comparative discussion of the regime process encountered, identity and claim formulations used, and the shifts in the scale and scope of a movement. Movements having such a broad impact are termed struggles for recognition and culminate from the combined impact of interactions and discourses in the form of mechanisms. Each process---regime policy changes, reformulations of objectives and identities, and scale and scope shifts---has a set of associated mechanisms that dialectically impact the development, emergence and escalation of a social movement as it evolves into a struggle for recognition of citizenship status. This struggle for recognition evolves from an ongoing movement being strongly influenced by a trigger event. The Civil Rights Movement and the collective actions of citizens in the United Kingdom are investigated in this work as they are two movements with similar trigger events. |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 289 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82586 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3363090 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2009 |
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