「要改變社會，首先你要先改變自己，要改變自己，你就要動起來！」──小熊英二 福澤諭吉之後，日本重量級社會思想家 中央公論新社新書大賞第1名 反安保學運社團SEALDs選書 李惠仁 紀錄片導演 吳叡人 中研院台灣史研究所副研究員 沈清楷 哲學星期五創辦人、輔仁大學哲學系助理教授 何明修 台灣大學社會系教授 柯一正 導演 范 雲 台灣大學社會系副教授、社會民主黨召集人 苗博雅 社會民主黨全國委員 崔愫欣 綠色公民行動聯盟秘書長 趙天麟 立法委員 ──推薦 __________________________________________ 改變社會是要改變什麼？又要如何改變？ 許多人想改變社會，但卻又不覺得社會真的可以改變。根本的原因在於，人們不曉得到底該做哪些事才能改變社會。 投下神聖的一票，或者自己參政成為政治人物，就能帶來改變嗎？對此抱持懷疑態度的人不在少數。我們要怎麼理解這樣的狀況？社會可能改變嗎？要改變社會，應該怎麼做才好？這就是本書最核心的主題。 本書是日本社會學者小熊英二，在實際參與社會運動、與人相遇而有所感觸，以及與此同時進行的研究，再加上過去所學與研究成果，種種心得融合下執筆完成。 本書從歷史、社會結構、思想層面導入，第一章綜覽日本現狀，探討核電在日本社會所處的位置，第二章討論社會運動的變遷，第三章描繪日本戰後的社會運動史，第四到第六章則探討民主與選出民意代表的意義，並思索代議民主制度為何出現瓶頸，第七章將簡介有助於實踐社會運動的理論。 六○年代日本的社會運動曾經氣勢浩大，後又沉靜多年，近年從反核運動到反安保法運動，日本示威抗議又再次群聚街頭，但鮮少台灣人了解這些運動的來龍去脈，透過本書不僅能清楚這些前因後果，更能與台灣的社會運動作比較，並賦予自己力量與信心，思考如何透過公民運動實現理想社會。 各界推薦 得獎紀錄：‧中央公論新社新書大賞第1名 ‧反安保學運社團SEALDs選書

How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport offers an alternative explanation where both factors interact. Drawing on organizational, as well as individual-level, explanations, Davenport argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time. Davenport employs a previously unavailable database that contains information on a black nationalist/secessionist organization, the Republic of New Africa, and the activities of authorities in the U.S. city of Detroit and state and federal authorities.

The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated using inclusive discourses such as "We Are the 99%" that travel easily through social media. In many of these mobilizations, communication operates as an organizational process that may replace or supplement familiar forms of collective action based on organizational resource mobilization, leadership, and collective action framing. In some cases, connective action emerges from crowds that shun leaders, as when Occupy protesters created media networks to channel resources and create loose ties among dispersed physical groups. In other cases, conventional political organizations deploy personalized communication logics to enable large-scale engagement with a variety of political causes. The Logic of Connective Action shows how power is organized in communication-based networks, and what political outcomes may result.

Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement figure prominently in the modern world. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements examines social movements in a comparative perspective, focusing on the role of ideology and beliefs, mechanisms of mobilization, and how politics shapes the development and outcomes of movements. It includes case studies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and West Germany.

This book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.