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The unity of social movements

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posted on 2023-06-08, 18:53 authored by Tim Jordan
A coherent intellectual structure for social movement studies has recently been emerging over a range of theoretical and empirical studies. This structure counterposes ‘within social movements’ a diverse range of collective actions against the unity imposed by a collective identity. However, theorisations of this collective identity have so far failed to address the contradiction between structure and agency. A definition of collective identity for social movements that is not caught in the structure/agency divide is proposed by defining the appropriate level of abstraction for such a definition, defining why movements are unified and then how.

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  • Published

Journal

Sociological Review

ISSN

0038-0261

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

4

Volume

43

Page range

675-692

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  • Media and Film Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2014-11-07

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