Social Movements and Networks Relational Approaches to Collective Action

by Diani, Mario; McAdam, Doug

• ISBN13: 9780199251773
• ISBN10: 0199251770
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Social Movements and Networks examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action. For the first time in a single volume, leading social movements researchers systematically map out and assess the contribution of social network approaches to their fieldof enquiry in light of broader theoretical perspective. By exploring how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations, and how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources within and betweenmovements, the authors show how network concepts improve our grasp of the relationship between social movements and elites and of the dynamics of the political processes.

Author Biography

Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy, and the European Editor of Mobilization. Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xi
List of Tables	xiv
List of Abbreviations	xvi
Contributors	xviii
Introduction: Social Movements, Contentious Actions, and Social Networks: `From Metaphor to Substance'?	1	(20)
Mario Diani
I. Individual Networks
Social Networks Matter. But How?	21	(28)
Florence Passy
Movement Development and Organizational Networks: The Role of `Single Members' in the German Nazi Party, 1925--30	49	(28)
Helmut Anheier
II. Interorganizational Networks
Networks in Opposition: Linking Organizations Through Activists in the Polish People's Republic	77	(28)
Maryjane Osa
`Leaders' or Brokers? Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks	105	(18)
Mario Diani
Community Embeddedness and Collaborative Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Movement	123	(24)
Christopher Ansell
III. Networking the Political Process
Contentious Connections in Great Britain, 1828--34	147	(26)
Charles Tilly
Lesley J. Wood
Networks, Diffusion, and Cycles of Collective Action	173	(31)
Pamela E. Oliver
Daniel J. Myers
Movement in Context: Thick Networks and Japanese Environmental Protest	204	(29)
Jeffrey Broadbent
IV. Theories of Networks, Movements, and Collective Action
Why do Networks Matter? Rationalist and Structuralist Interpretations	233	(25)
Roger V. Gould
Cross-talk in Movements: Reconceiving the Culture-Network Link	258	(23)
Ann Mische
Beyond Structural Analysis: Toward a More Dynamic Understanding of Social Movements	281	(18)
Doug McAdam
Networks and Social Movements: A Research Programme	299	(21)
Mario Diani
References	320	(27)
Index	347