2001
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.283
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Collective Identity and Social Movements

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… Show more

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“…En los movimientos multiidentitarios, cada grupo se define en torno a elementos culturales distintos (Kurtz, 2002). Se entiende que no hay un "nosotros" colectivo, sino identidades que comparten representaciones de un problema, así como valores para confrontarlo (Polleta y Jasper, 2001). …”
Section: Identidad Y Estrategiaunclassified
“…En los movimientos multiidentitarios, cada grupo se define en torno a elementos culturales distintos (Kurtz, 2002). Se entiende que no hay un "nosotros" colectivo, sino identidades que comparten representaciones de un problema, así como valores para confrontarlo (Polleta y Jasper, 2001). …”
Section: Identidad Y Estrategiaunclassified
“…The benefits might include access to a group meeting, or paraphernalia such as a membership badge or certificate, bringing brand or reputational rewards [26], or less tangible benefits in terms of reinforcing or maintaining a valued social identity [27]. Thus, companies can be motivated to sign up to 'green clubs' by the promise that they can display a certificate of membership, and benefit from doing so by gaining access to new customers or building loyalty with existing customers.…”
Section: Selective Benefitsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, during the 1960s the environmental movement was characterized as radical before its claims got ''translated into political action by governments'' and international conventions in the 1970s, and later by the formation of new green political parties worldwide (McCormick 1989, p. xi). Importantly, in order to become a challenge to the status quo, even radical social movements need to articulate their collective claims and identity within the frames of the existing order (Polletta and Jasper 2001;Tarrow 1998).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%