Social Movement Ideology

Ideology and the New Social Movements
Context of the Book
Alan Scott, the writer of this book, tries to contextualize his writing when there was too much emphasis on the broad sociological theory like functionalism and Marxism. There was one approach to understand the social movement within the framework of Marxism, which seeks on the material well-being. He criticizes the macro sociological theories of social movement, and tries to build the middle range theory to interpret the social movement in general and new social movement theory in particular. Further contextualizing the book, he says that there is double bounding between sociology and social movement. Going ahead he makes the argument that sociology’s concerns with interpreting contemporary

Further he is echoing the argument of S K White that heterogeneity and decentralization are the crucial traits of NSMs (p. 32) Lee in the second chapter of this book take the argument of Habermas, who see most NSMs as symptomatic social indication of the expanding economic administrative media of money and power (p. 56). He take in the same chapter Habermas’s schematic characterization of NSMs as defensive and progressive, for Lee which seems to incomplete, homogenizing and restrictive at first sight. For Habermas women’s movement is progressive and rest as being overly defensive, but Lee says that this is not always the case. For Habermas, NSMs is contemporary extra parliamentary conflicts and protest groups, which occur outside established political parties and the capital labor relations in material production and distribution. Lee focused on the communication and critical theory of Habermas, which he draws his writing ‘the theory of communicative action’ and also on the normative theory of

There is more demand to freedom and individuality for the women’s identity and movement but here there is more focus on the survival and other aspect of the problems. Lee in this book gives more emphasis and brings the argument of Habermas and do not pay attention on the other theoretically oriented writer such as Hanspeter Kriesi, Della Porta and Nick Crossley etc. the problem of global north is different from the problem of global south. We could not draw the similar line for the social movement in general and new social movement in particular for both the