Protest on the Fly: Toward a Theory of Spontaneity in the Dynamics of Protest and Social Movements

American Sociological Review

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1122-1143

  Snow, David A ^a   Moss, Dana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

collective action behavior; grounded theory; protest protest events; social movements; spontaneity

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911482183     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: 19398271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003122414554081     Document Type: Article

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