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East Asian Social Movements pp 481–493Cite as

Conclusion: Learning About Social Movements from East Asia

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Besides being fascinating accounts of social movements, what lessons for social movement theory do these chapters offer? Do they tell us anything about the role of culture in social movement theory? Do they introduce new concepts and theories that can expand our analytical toolkit? The concept of culture poses a challenge for the dominant structural-instrumental-mechanism school of social movement theory. Let us first review the origins and content of that challenge. Then we can assess what new tools may be emerging from East Asia.

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    Under criticism, Tarrow first weakened his claims for the explanatory power of POS structuralism without explicitly acknowledging so (Kurzman 2004), and then finally published a rejection of the approach titled “Confessions of a Recovering Structuralist” (Tarrow 2005).

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    Tilly’s article “Useless Durkheim” illustrates how structuralists reject out of hand ideas of the effect of collective values on social movements (Tilly 1981).

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Broadbent, J. (2011). Conclusion: Learning About Social Movements from East Asia. In: Broadbent, J., Brockman, V. (eds) East Asian Social Movements. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09626-1_21

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