MODEST STRUGGLE: UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY RESISTANCE THROUGH CITIZEN ACTIVISM IN THE 1970'S.
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Title
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MODEST STRUGGLE: UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY RESISTANCE THROUGH CITIZEN ACTIVISM IN THE 1970'S.
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Identifier
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AAI8302524
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identifier
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8302524
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Creator
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KRAUSS, CELENE.
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Contributor
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William Kornblum
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, General
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Abstract
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Modest Struggle is a theoretical conception I develop to understand the phenomenon of everyday resistance. I offer a new way to analyze social protests of ordinary people that grow out of their daily lives. These everyday forms of resistance are elusive and often invisible to outsiders.;To understand protests such as these requires a different kind of analysis. For the most part, the deeper meanings and importance of these protests are ignored or considered unimportant. For modest struggle does not fit into any grand notion of social change held either by participants or by observers.;Here I develop an over-all conception of what I call "modest struggle" by analyzing one case of everyday resistance in our own time and place. I refer to the emergence of citizen activism in the 1970's. Citizen Activism is a term popularly used to describe and give coherence to many different grassroot activities that emerged in the neighborhood and workplace over the past ten years. The phenomenon of citizen activism has been poorly understood precisely because we have no adequate ways in sociology to conceptualize everyday protests such as these.;Within critical sociology, there are new strands of writing which develop ways to conceive of social change from below. These include feminists, radical social historians, and Marxist theorists of the state. Through a combined analysis of citizen activism and new critical social theory I develop a way of getting at the deeper, more implicit meanings of everyday resistance in general.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
