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The International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change (ISA-RC48) aims to promote intellectual, academic and scholarly exchanges between researchers of broadly defined social movements, social change and collective action.
The RC 48 recognizes the fact that contemporary social movements become a significant vehicle of social change and that they are the component of various collective endeavors, including protest politics, social struggles, class actions, union organizations, uprisings, rebellions, revolutions and revolts.
The RC 48 recognizes the fact that social movement research is done from various theoretical, methodological and epistemological premises.
The RC's purpose is to allow, to facilitate and to enhance exchange of information and fostering of research initiatives in the areas of the cognitive activity of its intellectual constituency.

ARTICLE ONE: OBJECTIVES

1.1. The RC48 shall carry out the policies of the International Sociological Association and shall enhance worldwide cooperation in theoretical and empirical research and teaching in the broadly defined field of social movements, collective action, and social change.
1.2. To achieve these ends, the RC48 shall help within its means:
(a) to promote institutional and personal contacts between sociologists and other social scientists interested in social movements, collective action, and social change throughout the world;
(b) to encourage the worldwide dissemination and exchange of sociological knowledge and expertise about social movements, collective action, and social change;
(c) to facilitate and promote research and training related to social movements, collective action, and social change;
(d) to convene meetings in the same orientation, including participation in ISA World Congresses and at least one midterm meeting every four years.