Challenging Codes - Collective Action in the Information Age

Klappentext Leading social movements theorist examines collective action in the context of the information society. Zusammenfassung Leading social theorist Alberto Melucci builds on his highly influential Nomads of the Present to consider collective action in the postmodern age of information. Challenging Codes shares the social psychological perspective of its companion volume The Playing Self. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Theory of Collective Action: 1. The construction of collective action; 2. Conflict and change; 3. Action and meaning; 4. The process of collective identity; Part II. Contemporary Collective Action: 5. conflicts of culture; 6. Invention of the present; 7. The time of difference; 8. Roots for today and for tomorrow; 9. A search for ethics; 10. Information, power, domination; Part III. The Field of Collective Action: 11. A society without a centre; 12. The political system; 13. The state and the distribution of social resources; 14. Modernization, crisis, and conflict: the case of Italy; Part IV. Acting Collectively: 15. Mobilization and political participation; 16. The organization of movements; 17. Leadership in social movements; 18. Collective action and discourse; 19. Forms of action; 20. Research on collective action.

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• Authors: Alberto Melucci, Alberto (Universit... Degli Studi DI Mila Melucci, Alberto (Universita Degli Studi DI Milano Melucci
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521570510
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57051-0
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories