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Jan 24, 2019 · Independence movements cannot manufacture many of the most important conditions that contribute to their success, but they can seize upon opportune moments. Several important factors are well within the control of an independence movement, but they often fail to develop.
Oxford Handbooks. Collection: Oxford Handbooks Online. Introduction. Insofar as nationalism connotes a desire for sovereignty as a state and separate existence as a people, it would seem that any movement for independence, wherever it might occur, presupposes nationalist consciousness and purpose.
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Sep 18, 2014 · Abstract. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the causes of social revolutions. In this article, I take a synthetic approach and hypothesize that the three most important factors that explain the onset of social revolution are economic development, regime type, and state ineffectiveness.
- Gizachew Tiruneh
- 2014
List of some of the major causes and effects of the American Revolution. The revolution began after Britain imposed new taxes and trade restrictions on the 13 American colonies, fueling growing resentment and strengthening the colonists’ objection to their lack of representation in the British Parliament.
Sociologist David Aberle (1966) addresses this question by developing categories that distinguish among social movements by considering 1) what it is the movement wants to change and 2) how much change they want. He described four types of social movements, including: alternative, redemptive, reformative, and revolutionary social movements.
Synopsis. Our essay seeks to set the mass of recent scholarship of the American Revolution within the unifying paradigm of the sociology of revolution—of revolution as a people’s war. This paradigm will permit a better understanding of the nature and meaning of the American Revolution.
Abstract. ‘What causes revolutions?’ shows that revolutions are complex processes that emerge from the social order becoming frayed in many areas at once. There are five elements that create an unstable social equilibrium: economic or fiscal strain, alienation and opposition among the elites, widespread popular anger at injustice, a ...
