Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970 is a 1982 book by sociologist Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and over fifty articles, and is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis. He wrote one of the first books on the theory in 1982...

. It is responsible for laying the theoretical groundwork for the political process model for sociological theory

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The book details the rise and fall of the American

United States

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 civil rights

Civil rights

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 movement by looking at it through the paradigm of the opportunities available via the established political structure, and more specifically the opportunity for social movement groups to make successful claims of grievances.

Being widely regarded as groundbreaking research this work is used in sociology

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classes throughout the country.