Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Democratic Organization for Social Change: Latin American Christian Base Communities and Literacy Campaigns

Democratic Organization for Social Change: Latin American Christian Base Communities and Literacy Campaigns

Van Vugt, Johannes P.

Hardcover

General EducationGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0897892453
ISBN13: 9780897892452
Publisher: Praeger
Published: May 30 1991
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

How is a local level democratic organization cultivated so that members, who were previously disenfranchised, are empowered to oppose an oppressive central authority and participate in a revolutionary reconstruction of society? Having spent many years researching this question, Johannes P. Van Vugt applies a model of democratic organization for social change to his findings regarding the way literacy campaigns and Christian Base communities were organized in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Brazil. His study is valuable as an example of a scientific methodology for studying and cultivating democratic organization for social change, and as a clarification of the controversy over the role of specific campaigns and organizations.

Van Vugt approaches his study from an interdisciplinary perspective using a methodology that is qualitative, historical, and comparative. He blends the cultural insights of ethnography with the structural understanding of how ideologies and organizations motivate and mobilize people. His research is based on field studies in Nicaragua; other studies of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Brazil; and theories of democratic organization and social change.

Also from

Van Vugt, Johannes P.

View All

Also in

General Sociology

View All