Social Movements and Networks or Rural Social Work

Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action

Author: Mario Diani

For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations; how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources both within movement milieus and between movement organizations and the political system; how network concepts and techniques may improve our grasp of the relationship between movements and elites, of the configuration of alliance and conflict structures, of the clustering of episodes of contention in protest cycles.Social Movements and Networks casts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Abbreviations
	Contributors
1	Introduction: Social Movements, Contentious Actions, and Social Networks: 'From Metaphor to Substance'?	1
2	Social Networks Matter. But How?	21
3	Movement Development and Organizational Networks: The Role of 'Single Members' in the German Nazi Party, 1925-30	49
4	Networks in Opposition: Linking Organizations Through Activists in the Polish People's Republic	77
5	'Leaders' or Brokers? Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks	105
6	Community Embeddedness and Collaborative Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Movement	123
7	Contentious Connections in Great Britain, 1828-34	147
8	Networks, Diffusion, and Cycles of Collective Action	173
9	Movement in Context: Thick Networks and Japanese Environmental Protest	204
10	Why do Networks Matter? Rationalist and Structuralist Interpretations	233
11	Cross-talk in Movements: Reconceiving the Culture-Network Link	258
12	Beyond Structural Analysis: Toward a More Dynamic Understanding of Social Movements	281
13	Networks and Social Movements: A Research Programme	299
	References	320
	Index	347

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Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Assests (with Infotrac(r))

Author: T Laine Scales

Following an introduction by the co-editors, this collection of 27 contributed readings from academics, students and practitioners is presented in 5 parts, introduced by 'Lead Teachers. ' This book presents a framework for asset building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, all of which are critical for working with rural communities.