Social Movements
The English Student Movement: An Evaluation of the Literature
By , School of Sociology and Social policy, The University of Leeds (July 2008)
Section: Social Movements
Subjects: Sociology, Social Movements.
People: Habermas, Jurgen.
Key Topic: movements.
Abstract
This article explores the state of the field of student movement research. I suggest there could be seen to be stagnation within the field of investigation, and resultant under-researching of some countries student movements, and I will make specific reference to the student movement of England in the late 1960s/early 1970s as a case in point of this. I argue that there has been unsatisfactory sole-causalities, such as issues of youth, issues seen as ‘triggers’, and political factors, attributed to the English student movement, and that this fails both to understand fully the significance and individuality of the English student movement, but also assumes a fit with New social movement (NSM) theory. I argue that we cannot automatically equate NSM's and student movements without thorough empirical research, and that we need to look to a synthesis of social movement theories in order to understand fully student movements.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00138.x
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