Models of collective action: any distinctiveness for social movements?

Journal title PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO
Author/s Mario Diano
Publishing Year 1905 Issue 2008/0
Language Italian Pages 24 P. File size 123 KB
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This article approaches the participation-social movements link from a peculiar perspective. First, it overlooks the conventional focus on individuals, on individual traits’ being taken as the main explanatory factor for individual political behavior, and on a view of collective action as the aggregation of individual actions; in contrast, it privileges an approach assessing how individual actions combine in peculiar collective patterns. Second, the article parts company with the traditional identification between actors and individuals, which has inspired so many analyses of participation, and focuses instead on organizational - especially, inter-organizational - dynamics. The article suggests this shift to be a necessary step in order to capture the distinctiveness of social movements as social processes.

Keywords: Social Movements; Social Networks; Participation; Social Movement Organizations; Coalitions.

Mario Diano, Modelli di azione collettiva: quale specificità per i movimenti sociali? in "PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO" 0/2008, pp , DOI: