Interests, Identities, and Relations: Drawing Boundaries in Civic Organizational Fields

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Mobilization Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.16.3.K301J7N67P472M17

M. Diani, Katia Pilati

引用次数: 28

Abstract

This paper combines social movement and organizational theory to explore boundary definition in civic organizational fields. Drawing upon evidence from two British cities, and applying network analysis to relations between organizations interested in environmental and ethnicity and migration issues, we show that identities shape network patterns more consistently than interest in specific issues. While this finding supports previous insights from organizational and social movement research on the relation between identities and fields, we go beyond them, in showing that the role of identities is pivotal regardless of the nature of local political opportunity structures and cultures. We conclude by discussing possible strategies for exploring the link between organizational and social movement fields.

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利益、身份与关系:公民组织领域的边界划定

本文结合社会运动与组织理论，探讨公民组织领域的边界界定。根据来自两个英国城市的证据，并将网络分析应用于对环境、种族和移民问题感兴趣的组织之间的关系，我们表明，身份塑造网络模式比对特定问题的兴趣更一致。虽然这一发现支持了先前组织和社会运动研究中关于身份与领域之间关系的见解，但我们超越了它们，表明无论当地政治机会结构和文化的性质如何，身份的作用都是至关重要的。最后，我们讨论了探索组织和社会运动领域之间联系的可能策略。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.