@article{Thayer_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Social Movements}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/social-movements-thayer}, abstractNote={The course is organized around three different theoretical approaches to globalization: 1) those that see it as a proliferation of powerful external forces which increasingly encroach on local communities; 2) those that follow the growing transnational connections being forged through the movement of people, ideas, goods and capital around the planet; and 3) those that stress the ways diverse imaginations of the global are awakened and deployed by a variety of social actors. (Burawoy et al, Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World, (Berkeley: UC Press, 2000). In each of the three major sections of the course, we will move from theory to the concrete forms globalization takes when seen from this perspective, and then to case studies of movements that respond to or draw on these particular aspects of globalization. Though in the class we move from theory to practice, it is important to note that the syllabus could have been organized in reverse—from movement to theory, since often it is movements themselves that lead the way, stimulating research, analysis and the construction of theories.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Thayer, Millie}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }