Verta Taylor uses the continuity of the women’s movement from the 1940s to the 1960s in the Unites States to explain social movement abeyance in the article Social Movement Continuity: The Women’s Movement in Abeyance. According to the author, “The term ‘abeyance’ depicts a holding process by which movements sustain themselves in nonreceptive political environments [...]
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In Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements Elizabeth Armstrong and Mary Bernstein build a new approach to social movements called mulit-institutional politics. They critique the political process model for assuming that there is one source of power and state that society is made up of both culture, identity, and structure [...]