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Social control, subjectivity as means professionalization of organizations,
of, 8 95
Social exclusion, 145–146 relation to institutional politics,
Social interventions, 110 109, 116, 118
Social justice, neo-Durkheimians and, Resource Mobilization Theory and,
17, 18 91–106, 129–130n1
“Socially excluded,” referring to right-wing, 235
poor, 145 role in political sociology, 87–91
Social meaning, power and, 37–38 sociology of action and, 107–111
Social movement leaders, 104–105 state and, 39
costs and benefits to, 94, 96 submerged networks and, 113–114,

Social movements, 30 120
citizenship and, 131, 132–133 tension between environmentalism
civil sphere concept and, 18–19 and, 187–188
collective identity and, 120, 122–123 “truth” and, 110–111

conflict and, 106–107, 108–111, wealth of developed societies and
121 increase in activity of, 95
cultural politics and, 120–121, 123, Social movement sector, 95–96
231–235 Social practices, culture and, 30–31
defi nition of, 118–123 Social reality, symbols in, 117
democratization in complex Social reform, Alexander and, 19
societies and, 116 Social relations
democratizing, 234 disembedding of, 55
destinations for, 97 symbolic meaning and, 20
Diani definition of, 119–120 Social rights, 135, 140–141

emergence of oppositional, 94 of European Union citizens, 182
Foucault on, 25 gender-differentiated, 150–151
global (see Global social market fundamentalism and, 141
movements) poverty and, 142–144
Harvey on, 51 reductions in, 141–142
identity and, 39–40 women and, 149
labor movement and, 88–89 Social solidarity
legacy of, 232–234 Durkheim and, 15–16
as networks, 120, 122 neo-Durkheimians and, 17–18
“new” (see New social movements) Social structures, identities and,
New Social Movement Theory, 34–35
106–118, 129–130n1 Societal cultures, 191n1
“old,” 88–91 Society
old vs. new, 89–91 effect on state, 3
as personages, 112 elite theorists’ view of, 13
persuasion and, 231 globalization and, 38–39
politicization of social structures Sociology of action, 107–111
through, 38 Soft power, 61
as product of social action, 112 NGOs and INGOs and, 64