- Title
- Alain Touraine : the politics of collective action
- Creator
- Ottmann, Goetz; Noble, Carolyn
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/178778
- Identifier
- vital:15481
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351002042-38
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781351002035 (ISBN); 9781138545748 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- This chapter takes as its starting point Touraine’s work on new social movements that explains how social change occurs. Touraine’s work focuses on how people come together to challenge and alter cultural and socio-political boundaries of a social, institutional or political system deemed to be discriminatory or oppressive. Becoming involved in social action against social disadvantage and injustice, and struggling for changes in law, public policy and the political culture can empower people to take control of their lives. Linking community development and social action with social movements theory and practice is, we argue, the most effective and salient method for the advancement of a more progressive social work practice. How this analysis influences the teaching and practice of community development and social action to advance a more progressive, transformative social work practice is explored. © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett, Carolyn Noble, and Stephen Cowden.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Relation
- The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work p. 465-476
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
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