The extent of change: An analytical proposal about the consequences of social movements

Authors

  • Susana Aguilar Departamento de Sociología Aplicada. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  • Eduardo Romanos Departamento de Sociología Aplicada. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2018.54

Keywords:

Social movements, 15M movement, political results, Spain.

Abstract

The analysis of the consequences of the social movements has been peripheral until quite recently. Further, the few comparative studies on this topic have reached disparate conclusions. Problems of conceptual vagueness, as well as the adoption of different methodologies, might explain, amongst others, this disparity. Our proposal is to focus on the political results that social movements obtain at the meso level and that respond to the explicit demands articulated by them. Likewise, we defend that such results can and must be analysed as connected with changes that occur on the cultural and biographical levels in the medium and long run. We use the 15M movement and its political results, as exemplified by the emergence of new parties that have brought about novel policies and innovative participatory experiments, as an example of our proposal.

Author Biographies

Susana Aguilar, Departamento de Sociología Aplicada. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Catedrática en la UCM y doctora miembro del Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales (Instituto Juan March). Ha sido Premio de Memorias de Licenciatura y ocente en las Universidades de Salamanca, Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés de Bolivia, y Swedish School of Social Sciences en Finlandia. Ha publicado en Politics and Gender, Administration & Society, Politics and Religion, the Journal of Public Policy, Southern European Society & Politics, Environmental Politics, REIS, RIS y Revista de Estudios Políticos, entre otras. Su último libro, “Identidad y opción, dos formas de entender la política”, ha sido publicado por Alianza Universidad.

Eduardo Romanos, Departamento de Sociología Aplicada. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Profesor contratado doctor en la UCM. Doctor en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales por el Instituto Universitario Europeo de Florencia. Sus principales áreas de investigación son la sociología política y la sociología histórica, con un interés particular por los movimientos sociales y la protesta. Ha publicado en Journal of Historical Sociology, REIS, RIS, Social Movement Studies y Contemporary European History, entre otras. Es co-autor de Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) y Legacies and Memories in Movements: Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2018). Actualmente es editor de Social Movement Studies.

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2017-11-30

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Aguilar, S., & Romanos, E. (2017). The extent of change: An analytical proposal about the consequences of social movements. Spanish Journal of Sociology, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2018.54

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Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019): Volumen 28, Número 1, Enero 2019

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