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Tables of Contents for Challenging Codes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
1
12
Part I Theory of collective action
13
76
1. The construction of collective action
13
29
Traditions
13
3
Collective action as a construct
16
6
Principles for analysis of collective action
22
20
2. Conflict and change
42
12
The emergence of collective action
42
2
How an antagonist conflict is born
44
4
Addressing the social dimension of change
48
3
Integration and change
51
3
3. Action and meaning
54
14
Action made invisible
54
7
Interests and action
61
3
Recognizing what is common
64
4
4. The process of collective identity
68
21
Defining collective identity
68
9
The lens of collective identity: what one can see through it
77
3
Identity and collective emotional experience
80
3
Collective identity in historical context
83
6
Part II Contemporary collective action
89
118
5. Conflicts of culture
89
29
The systemic field
89
8
Contemporary social movements
97
9
Antagonist action?
106
7
Networks in the everyday
113
5
6. Invention of the present
118
15
Being young, choice or destiny?
118
5
Time and the culture of the possible
123
4
Youth as a mirror
127
2
Where have all the flowers gone?
129
4
7. The time of difference
133
12
Women's voices and silences
133
3
Between condition and action
136
4
To make a difference
140
5
8. Roots for today and for tomorrow
145
18
Ethnic and cultural identity
145
9
Ethnicity, nation, territory
154
3
Identity as a problem
157
6
9. A search for ethics
163
13
Ecology and pacifism
163
3
Altruistic action
166
5
The spiritual quest
171
5
10. Information, power, domination
176
31
Power and inequality
176
6
Forms of resistance, withdrawal, and symbolic challenge
182
4
'Identity politics'?
186
4
The world system and the end of historicism
190
7
Movements and the political system
197
10
Part III The field of collective action
207
80
11. A society without a centre
207
22
Myths of totality
207
4
Autonomy and the limits of political action
211
6
The dilemmas of complexity
217
1
Public spaces, representation, and the role of knowledge
218
7
Public discourse and the power of naming
225
4
12. The political system
229
14
Political system and social relations
229
5
Political demands
234
2
The production of decisions
236
4
The effects of the political system
240
3
13. The state and the distribution of social resources
243
16
The political system and the state
243
2
The unity of the state
245
4
Social organization or difficult integration
249
6
Classes or stratification
255
4
14. Modernization, crisis, and conflict: the case of Italy
259
28
Demands for modernization
259
5
The intersection between crisis and emerging conflicts
264
8
The transformation of collective action
272
3
Winds from the Right
275
6
Civic culture and democracy
281
6
Part IV: Acting collectively
287
15. Mobilization and political participation
287
26
Collective action as a social phenomenon
287
2
The formation of a movement
289
3
Mobilizing factors
292
3
Participation
295
6
Repression and social control
301
2
On the concept of political participation
303
4
Mobilization in contemporary movements
307
6
16. The organization of movements
313
19
From revolt to organization
313
4
Internal processes of the organization
317
6
Relations between the organization and the environment
323
3
The forms of organization
326
3
Self-reflective organizations
329
3
17. Leadership in social movements
332
16
The leader-constituency relationship
332
Charismatic leadership
325
14
The role of leadership
339
2
Conformity and innovation
341
3
Network leaders
344
4
18. Collective action and discourse
348
13
Ideology and frames
348
4
Integration and strategy
352
3
The ambivalance of collective frames
355
2
Reversing the symbolic order
357
4
19. Forms of action
361
19
Revolutions
361
6
Violence in collective action
367
4
Crowd behaviour
371
7
Direct action and conflictual participation
378
2
20. Research on collective action
380
18
At the border
380
2
How a 'we' is formed
382
2
Research procedures
384
7
Ways out
391
2
Moral and political implications
393
5
References
398