Subject: Political Science Book Title: Social Movements and Networks
Social Movements and Networks
Relational Approaches to Collective Action
Diani, Mario
(Editor), Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy
McAdam, Doug
(Editor), Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Print publication date: 2003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925178-0
doi:10.1093/0199251789.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925178-0
doi:10.1093/0199251789.001.0001
Abstract:
Illustrates relational approaches to the study of social movements and collective action. Contributors analyse most recent developments in the analysis of the role of networks as facilitators or constraints of individual recruitment, various forms of interorganizational networks, and the relationship between social networks and the political context in which social movements operate. They also relate the growing attention to social networks by social movement analysis to broader theoretical debates. Both quantitative and qualitative network analysis are considered, and attention is paid to the time dimension and the evolution of networks, through both simulation models and empirical data. Empirical chapters cover both contemporary and historical episodes of collective action, in reference to authoritarian as well as progressive, left-libertarian movements. Chapters focusing on individual networks specify different effects of network embeddedness over participation in different types of collective action (Passy, Anheier). Interorganizational relations are explored by looking at leadership dynamics (Diani), the relationship between categorical traits and network position within coalitions (Ansell), and the role of individuals in linking different organizations both synchronically and diachronically (Osa). Network approaches to the political process illustrate shifts in alliance and conflict networks at a time of regime change (Tilly and Wood), the evolution of social networks during protest cycles (Oliver and Myers), and the role of local elites in shaping protest networks in the community (Broadbent). Theoretical chapters discuss network perspectives on social movements in relation to recent theoretical developments in rational choice theory (Gould), cultural analysis (Mische), and the analysis of social mechanisms (McAdam). A radical case is also made for a reorientation of the whole social movement agenda along network lines (Diani).
Keywords: collective action, cultural analysis, network analysis, participation, political process, rational choice, simulation models, social mechanisms, social movements, social networks
Keywords: collective action, cultural analysis, network analysis, participation, political process, rational choice, simulation models, social mechanisms, social movements, social networks
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: Social Movements, Contentious Actions, and Social Networks: ‘From Metaphor to Substance’?
2. Social Networks Matter. But How?
3. Movement Development and Organizational Networks: The Role of ‘Single Members’ In the German Nazi Party, 1925–30
4. Networks in Opposition: Linking Organizations through Activists in the Polish People's Republic
5. ‘Leaders’ Or Brokers? Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks
6. Community Embeddedness and Collaborative Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Movement
7. Contentious Connections in Great Britain, 1828–34
8. Networks, Diffusion, and Cycles of Collective Action
9. Movement in Context: Thick Networks and Japanese Environmental Protest
10. Why Do Networks Matter? Rationalist and Structuralist Interpretations
11. Cross-Talk in Movements: Reconceiving the Culture-Network Link
12. Beyond Structural Analysis: Toward a More Dynamic Understanding of Social Movements
13. Networks and Social Movements: A Research Programme
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0199251789.001.0001
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