The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch Usamerican Social Movements Contributor(s): Boykoff, Jules (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415978106 ISBN-13: 9780415978101 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained--although often subtle and difficult-to-observe--suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth-century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement. First it delineates a typology of actions the state and mass media engage in that suppress dissent. Then it shifts analytically from these twelve Modes of Suppression to the five interactive Mechanisms of Suppression that animate demobilization: Resource Depletion, Stigmatization, Divisive Disruption, Intimidation, and Emulation. Acting individually or in concert, these Mechanisms of Suppression operate across time and place. |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - General - Social Science | Media Studies - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship |
Dewey: 303.484 |
LCCN: 2005027757 |
Series: New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice |
Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.28" W x 9.13" (1.37 lbs) 386 pages |
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Publisher Description: Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement. |