Collective Identity and Social Movements

@article{citeulike:2880306, abstract = {Sociologists have turned to collective identity to fill gaps in resource mobilization and political process accounts of the emergence, trajectories, and impacts of social movements. Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative to selective incentives in understanding why people participate, an alternative to instrumental rationality in explaining what tactical choices activists make, and an alternative to institutional reforms in assessing movements’ impacts. Collective identity has been treated both too broadly and too narrowly, sometimes applied to too many dynamics, at other times made into a residual category within structuralist, state-centered, and rationalist accounts.}, author = {Polletta, Francesca and Jasper, James M. }, citeulike-article-id = {2880306}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.283}, journal = {Annual Review of Sociology}, keywords = {collective\_action, psychology}, number = {1}, pages = {283--305}, posted-at = {2008-06-10 17:57:47}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Annual Reviews}, title = {Collective Identity and Social Movements}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.283}, volume = {27}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2880306 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2880306 TI - Collective Identity and Social Movements JF - Annual Review of Sociology VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 283 EP - 305 PB - Annual Reviews N2 - Sociologists have turned to collective identity to fill gaps in resource mobilization and political process accounts of the emergence, trajectories, and impacts of social movements. Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative to selective incentives in understanding why people participate, an alternative to instrumental rationality in explaining what tactical choices activists make, and an alternative to institutional reforms in assessing movements’ impacts. Collective identity has been treated both too broadly and too narrowly, sometimes applied to too many dynamics, at other times made into a residual category within structuralist, state-centered, and rationalist accounts. KW - collective_action KW - psychology AU - Polletta, Francesca AU - Jasper, James PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.283 ER -