Challenging Codes - Collective Action in the Information Age

Klappentext In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the experience of the individual in postmodern society. The focus is on the role of information in an age which knows both fragmentation and globalisation, building on the analysis of collective action familiar from the author's Nomads of the Present. Melucci addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, including political conflict and change, feminism, ecology, identity politics, power and inequality. 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alberto Melucci, Alberto (Universit... Degli Studi DI Mila Melucci, Alberto (Universita Degli Studi DI Milano Melucci, Melucci Alberto
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 12.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521570510
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57051-0
• Pages: 456
• Thèmes: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and; Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology