Social transformation and new forms of voluntary associations

Gundelach, Peter

doi:10.1177/053901884023006009

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“…Decision making in new social movements is ideally achieved on a consensus basis and tends to lack structured authority lines (Gundelach 1984, Dalton 1988). Yet even though "decision making is collective" and "there are no bureaucratic leaders" (Gundelach 1984(Gundelach : 1065, social movements do have organisational cores (Holloway 1986, Doyle 1989 and 'leaders' do exist. These 'leaders' often have significant input into decision making processes, as they are adept at setting the agenda for discussion and subtly influencing the consensus process (Tranter 1995:91).…”

Section: Organisation Legitimacy and Leadershipmentioning

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The social bases of environmentalism in Australia

Tranter

1996

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology

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Interpretations of social and political movements as reflecting social cleavages, especially 'class bases', have formed the backbone of political sociology. Ac cordingly, Western environmental movements are often explained in terms of their alleged class and generational bases. This research assesses social base explanations of support for environmental new politics in Australia. Using nationally representative survey data, it examines the impact of (new) class, status, generation/cohort, and other aspects of social location on environmental concerns and support for environmental groups. Although some social location effects are apparent, they have limited utility for'explaining' environmental new politics in Australia. While the impact of social location variables are generally weak, along with postmaterialist value orientations and consumption of high culture, they have a moderate effect on the propensity to be environmentally active.

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Section: Organisation Legitimacy and Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social bases of environmentalism in Australia

Tranter

1996

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology

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“…Strictly speaking, membership can only exist in formal organizations that have clear boundaries with their environment. In contrast, the organizational forms of new social movements are marked on the whole by a rather small degree of formalization (Gundelach 1984;Rucht 1984) and unfocused edges, although these movements also include regular membership organizations. The question of membership is, however, a valid indicator of the behavioral dimension only if those questioned understand "membership" not in this strict sense, but rather as a designation of forms of participation that are possible within the context of new social movements: participation in collective actions of these movements, or more or less binding membership in groups which organize such collective actions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Support for new social movements in five western European countries 1

Fuchs¹,

Rucht²

2018

Social Change and Political Transformation

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. AbstractOn the basis of the Eurobarometer survey data of 1982, 1984, 1986, and 1989, trends as well as levels of support for new social movements are analysed comparatively. The countries involved are France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain. The analysis is based on a concept of support combining a behavioral and an attitudinal dimension. With respect to the levels, there are considerable differences between countries over the whole period of time. The strongest support can be clearly found in the Netherlands and in Germany whereas it is quite low in Italy and France. In the course of the eighties the support in all five countries has been relatively stable with a slightly increasing tendency.

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“…Il y a tout d'abord le retour en force de la pensée associationniste (Morris, 1982;Gundelach, 1984;Rossel et autres, 1986;Oison, 1987;Kellerhals, 1988: 99-107 (Perrin, 1983b: 202-209;Aydalot, 1984b;Jackson et Masnick, 1984 : 77 et suiv. ;Hansen, 1985).…”

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Développement économique des communautés locales : déplacements dans la réflexion théorique au cours des années quatre-vingt

Ahtik

2015

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Social transformation and new forms of voluntary associations

Cited by 22 publications

References 4 publications

The social bases of environmentalism in Australia

The social bases of environmentalism in Australia

Support for new social movements in five western European countries 1

Développement économique des communautés locales : déplacements dans la réflexion théorique au cours des années quatre-vingt

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