IV ISA Forum of Sociology (February 23-28, 2021)

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Organized Collective Action: Building Bridges from Social Movements and Formal Organizations. Part II

Abstract Submissions Closed

RC17 Sociology of Organization (host committee)
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

Language: Spanish and English

Session Type: Oral

Are the social movements totally different from organizations? Are they focusing in totally different objects, in an incommensurable manner? This session argues that we can see the social movements and formal organizations as two sides of the same and broader object: the collective action, this one being variable in its grade of structuration. Recovering the earlier developments from the Mobilization Resources Theory, going through Political Mobilization, we can arrive at the version delivered by the French School of Organizational Sociology called Organized Collective Action. Here we can see the collective action concept being framed in different and specific perspectives according their level of structuration without dismissing the commitment with a project of more general theory. Texts will be welcomed driving by the topics:

• Organized Collective Action update assessment: their contributions and challenges;
• Social movements theories framed by collective action;
• Organizational theories framed by collective action;
• Theories in collective action and their empirical models of applying;
• Ontology and Epistemology in collective action their implications to social movements and organizational theories.