Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry''s important and influential study of the theory of revolution.

• Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to be used in ways which emasculated some of the suppositions of that tradition.
• Part 2 sets out a theory o...