{"id":1124,"date":"2012-03-09T03:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1124"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:45:19","slug":"the-spurs-of-social-movements-in-retrospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/03\/09\/the-spurs-of-social-movements-in-retrospect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spurs of Social Movements, in Retrospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>David S. Meyer and Deana A. Rohlinger, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.1525\/sp.2012.59.1.136\">&ldquo;Big Books and Social Movements: A Myth of Ideas and Social Change,&rdquo; <em>Social Problems<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Scholars and journalists alike often truncate the roots of social movements by pointing to simple origin stories, predicated on the publication of seminal books like Betty Friedan&#8217;s<em> The Feminine Mystique<\/em>, Michael Harrington&#8217;s <em>The Other America<\/em>, or Ralph Nader&#8217;s <em>Unsafe at Any Speed<\/em>. The truth is that books and intellectualism have a role, but it&#8217;s more often symbolic and a function of collective memory than collective action. For a fuller story, these authors believe we must consider social and historical factors outside the world of big, singular ideas (or big, singular expressions of those ideas).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David S. Meyer and Deana A. Rohlinger, &ldquo;Big Books and Social Movements: A Myth of Ideas and Social Change,&rdquo; Social Problems, 2012 Scholars and journalists alike often truncate the roots of social movements by pointing to simple origin stories, predicated on the publication of seminal books like Betty Friedan&#8217;s The Feminine Mystique, Michael Harrington&#8217;s The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,85],"tags":[4455,14907,45],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","tag-collective-memory","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-social-movements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}