Social Movements, second edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for sociology courses for upper-year undergraduate students in both colleges and universities. This book examines collective behaviour and how it relates to the emergence of social movements. Staggenborg lays out the natural cycle of social movements through the stages of maintenance, growth and decline. The author contextualizes this theory by examining specific social movements such as the women's movement, theAboriginal movement, and the environmental movement to see how these movements maximized their resources to achieve growth and further their goals. This book is part of the Themes in Canadian Sociology series, which reflects the work of Canadian scholars in recent research and trends in sociology.