Power Plays: How Social Movements and Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms

Power Plays: How Social Movements and Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms

Organizational theory emphasizes how new organizational forms are produced by technological innovation but has glossed over the role of cultural innovation. This chapter suggests that social movements are important sources of cultural innovation and identifies the scope conditions under which social movements create new organizational forms. By doing so, it lends substance to the notion of inst...

Formal Models in Studying Collective Action and Social Movements

Collective Identity and Social Movements

■ Abstract Sociologists have turned to collective identity to fill gaps in resource mobilization and political process accounts of the emergence, trajectories, and impacts of social movements. Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative to selective incentives in understand...

relationship between social capital and collective action in rural areas

objectives: this paper investigates the relationship between social capital and collective action in some rural areas of fars province and at the same time study determining factors affecting the social capital formation. method: this research was carried out with survey method in the 12 villages of fars province and selected a sample of 509 head of households. findings: among indicators of soc...

Introduction : New Organizational Forms ± Critical