This paper attempts to further theoretical and empirical understanding of adherent and constituent mobilization by proposing and analyzing frame alignment as a conceptual bridge linking social psychological and resource mobilization views on movement participation. Extension of Goffinan's (1974) frame analytic perspective provides the conceptualltheoretical framework; field research on two religious movements, the peace movement, and several neighborhood movements provide the primary empirical base. Four frame alignment processes are identified and elaborated: frame bridging, frame amplification, frame extension, and frame transformation. The basic underlying premise is that frame alignment, of one variety or another, is a necessary condition for participation, whatever its nature or intensity, and that it is typically an interactional and ongoing accomplishment. The paper concludes with an elaboration of several sets of theoretical and research implications.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2095581.pdf

Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation.

This article is intended to enhance the position of stakeholder theory as an integrating theme for the business and society field. It offers an instrumental theory of stakeholder management based on a synthesis of the stakeholder concept, economic theory, behavioral science, and ethics. The core theory—that a subset of ethical principles (trust, trustworthiness, and cooperativeness) can result in significant competitive advantage—is supplemented by nine research propositions along with some research and policy implications.

Instrumental stakeholder theory: a synthesis of ethics and economics

This paper presents systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period. While numerous researchers have noted the increasing salience of finance, there have been few systematic attempts to consider what this shift means for the nature of the economy, considered broadly. In large part, this omission reflects the considerable methodological difficulties associated with using national economic data to assess the rise of finance as a macro-level phenomenon shaping patterns of accumulation in the US economy. The paper develops two discrete measures of financialization and applies these measures to postwar US economic data in order to determine if, and to what extent, the US economy is becoming financialized. The paper concludes by considering some of the implications of financialization for two areas of ongoing debate in the social sciences: (1) the question of who controls the modern corporation; and (2) the controversy surrounding the extent to which globalization has eroded the autonomy of the state.

The financialization of the American economy

Research on interlocking directorates has gained increasing prominence within the field of organizations, but it has come under increasing criticism as well. This chapter presents an in-depth examination of the study of interlocking directorates. I focus initially on both the determinants and the consequences of interlocking directorates, reviewing alternative accounts of both phenomena. Special attention is paid to the processual formulations implied by various interlock analyses. I then address the two primary criticisms of interlock research and evaluate the tenability of these criticisms. I conclude with a discussion of future directions for interlock research.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2083432.pdf

What Do Interlocks Do? An Analysis, Critique, and Assessment of Research on Interlocking Directorates

There has been rapid growth in the study of diffusion across organizations and social movements in recent years, fueled by interest in institutional arguments and in network and dynamic analysis. This research develops a sociologically grounded account of change emphasizing the channels along which practices flow. Our review focuses on characteristic lines of argument, emphasizing the structural and cultural logic of diffusion processes. We argue for closer theoretical attention to why practices diffuse at different rates and via different pathways in different settings. Three strategies for further development are proposed: broader comparative research designs, closer inspection of the content of social relations between collective actors, and more attention to diffusion industries run by the media and communities of experts.

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DIFFUSION IN ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills

Has every young American man had an equal chance of getting killed in the war in Vietnam, whatever his social origins? This is the central empirical question of this article. Socially relevant and politically significant, this question is also important from a sociological standpoint. There is ample evidence that the &dquo;life chances&dquo; of the poor and of workers in general suffer by comparison to those of more privileged strata in the United States. This is true not only of such diverse &dquo;opportunities&dquo; or &dquo;rewards&dquo; as formal education, access to health and medical care, decent housing and humane working conditions, but of mortality rates themselves. In a recent analysis of more than thirty studies-many of them in the United States-of &dquo;Social Class, Life Expectancy, and Overall Mortality,&dquo; Aaron Antonovsky concluded that &dquo;despite the variegated populations surveyed, the inescapable conclusion is that class influences one’s chances of staying alive. Almost without exception, the evidence shows that classes differ in mortality rates.... What

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Papers

Death In Vietnam: Class, Poverty, And The Risks Of War

Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class.

Classes, class conflict, and the State : empirical studies in class analysis

Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class.

Latin America, reform or revolution? A reader