Olivier Fillieule, Eric Agrikoliansky, Isabelle Sommier (eds), Penser les mouvements sociaux. Conflits sociaux et contestations dans les sociétés contemporaines, Paris, La Découverte, 2010
Social movement studies constitute today a specialized field within the social sciences, at the intersection of sociology, political science, and history. Most of the core concepts were developed in the US, while the interest in social movements has been less sustained in Europe. French sociology of social movements, however, has been built on a number of original and distinct methods and approaches that this book explores in order to critically assess the core concepts of the contentious politics approach: use of instruments from critical sociology, suspicion of positivist methods in favor of more qualitative approaches, development of studies on non-Western societies, as well as on so-called unlikely mobilizations of groups lacking resources, dialoguing with closely related sub-fields such as the study of interest groups or the sociology of social problems.