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For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.

Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam

Doug McAdam

Born: August 31, 1951 (age 74)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Dynamics of Contention (2001)
A Theory of Fields (2012)

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