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Conceptualizing contexts or contextualizing concepts? On some issues of the modeling of relational spaces in the study of collective action
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The growing attention paid to the relational spaces of collective action is good news as discussed by the authors, and it owes a lot to the legacy of interactionism and allows us to more accurately grasp the relevant contexts of...Abstract:
The growing attention paid to the relational spaces of collective action is good news. It owes a lot to the legacy of interactionism and allows us to more accurately grasp the relevant contexts of ...read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest:
TL;DR: The Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest is an important milestone for the ongoing interactionist insurgency in social movement studies as discussed by the authors, where contributors were all invited to weigh the prospects of a Strategic Interaction approach to contentious politics and the differences between them are quite constructive and enjoyable to discover in the course of reading this richly edited collection.
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Linking Arenas: structuring concepts in the study of politics and protest
TL;DR: An arena is a familiar, common-sense word to specify what constrains and enables human actors, or players, in politics, in the sense of the places where they do politics.
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Comparing collective actions beyond national contexts : ‘local spaces of protest’ and the added value of critical geography
TL;DR: In this article, comparative research has been rare in social movement studies and scholars who embark on this path are confronted with several analytical and methodological challenges, and this paper offers an avenue for such research.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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From Mobilization to Revolution.
J. Craig Jenkins,Charles Tilly +1 more
TL;DR: The recent fallecimiento del sociólogo e historiador Charles Tilly (Lombard, Illinois, 1929-Bronx, Nueva York, 2008) puede servir de pretexto for rememorar una trayectoria investigadora sin duda excepcional, plasmada a lo largo de medio siglo en más de 600 artículos and 51 libros and monografías, that le convirtieron en el más influyente especialista
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Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
TL;DR: McAdam as discussed by the authors presented a political process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States, focusing on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP.