Challenging Codes Book

Introduction;

Part I. Theory of Collective Action:

1. The construction of collective action;
2. Conflict and change;
3. Action and meaning;
4. The process of collective identity;

Part II. Contemporary Collective Action:
5. conflicts of culture;
6. Invention of the present;
7. The time of difference;
8. Roots for today and for tomorrow;
9. A search for ethics;
10. Information, power, domination;

Part III. The Field of Collective Action:
11. A society without a centre;
12. The political system;
13. The state and the distribution of social resources;
14. Modernization, crisis, and conflict: the case of Italy;

Part IV. Acting Collectively:
15. Mobilization and political participation;
16. The organization of movements;
17. Leadership in social movements;
18. Collective action and discourse;
19. Forms of action;
20. Research on collective action.