Giorgio Bertini
Research Professor on society, culture, art, cognition, critical thinking, intelligence, creativity, neuroscience, autopoiesis, self-organization, complexity, systems, networks, rhizomes, leadership, sustainability, thinkers, futures ++
Networks
Learning Change Project
Categories
5000 Posts in this Blog
- Follow Learning Change on WordPress.com
Paul Gauguin
Tag Archives: collective action
Actions by Collectives
We commonly attribute actions to collectives. Thus, we use locutions like ‘Firm F produced the goods G’, ‘Nation N, attacked nation N2’, ‘The board dismissed Jones’, ‘The team scored’, and so on. On the basis of examples like these it seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Collective, Collective action, Tuomela
Tagged action, collective, collective action, Tuomela
Comments Off on Actions by Collectives
Rethinking the Link Between Structure and Collective Action. Capitalism, Politics, and the Theory of Social Movements
Social movement scholars have rarely paid attention to the transformations of capitalism as factors of social movement formation processes. This paper makes two different but complementary contributions. First, we provide a macro-social theory that connects the emergence of social movements … Continue reading
Posted in Collective action, Social movements
Tagged collective action, social movements
Comments Off on Rethinking the Link Between Structure and Collective Action. Capitalism, Politics, and the Theory of Social Movements
Civic Life in the Divided Metropolis: Social Capital, Collective Action, and Residential Income Segregation
Social capital is presumed to help individuals who lack financial or human capital achieve collective action through their social ties and networks of relationships. But does it help individuals overcome their socioeconomic disadvantages relative to their wealthier neighbors, or does … Continue reading
Posted in Civic engagement, Collective action, income inequality, Social capital
Tagged civic engagement, collective action, income inequality, social capital
Comments Off on Civic Life in the Divided Metropolis: Social Capital, Collective Action, and Residential Income Segregation
From Individual to Collective Intentionality
Book – Many of the things we do, we do together with other people. Think of carpooling and playing tennis. In the past two or three decades, it has become increasingly popular to analyze such collective actions in terms of … Continue reading
Posted in Collective action, Collective agency, Collective intentionality
Tagged collective action, collective agency, collective intentionality
Comments Off on From Individual to Collective Intentionality
Collective Response of Human Populations to Large- Scale Emergencies
Despite recent advances in uncovering the quantitative features of stationary human activity patterns, many applications, from pandemic prediction to emergency response, require an understanding of how these patterns change when the population encounters unfamiliar conditions. To explore societal response to … Continue reading
On the Sensitivity of Collective Action to Uncertainty about Climate Tipping Points
Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate “tipping point,” is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is … Continue reading
Posted in Collective action, Thresholds, Tipping point, Uncertainty
Tagged collective action, thresholds, tipping point, uncertainty
Comments Off on On the Sensitivity of Collective Action to Uncertainty about Climate Tipping Points
Communication and Collective Action: Language and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
All social species face various “collective action problems” or “social dilemmas,” meaning problems in achieving cooperating when the best move from a selfish point of view yields an inferior collective outcome. Compared to most other species, humans are very good … Continue reading
Posted in Collective action, Cooperation, Human cooperation, Human sociality, Language
Tagged collective action, cooperation, human cooperation, human sociality, language
Comments Off on Communication and Collective Action: Language and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
How does it Feel to Act Together?
This paper on the phenomenology of joint agency proposes a foray into a little-explored territory at the intersection of two very active domains of research: joint action and sense of agency. I explore two ways in which our experience of … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Collective action, Individual, Joint action
Tagged agency, collective action, individual, joint action
Comments Off on How does it Feel to Act Together?
Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines
Book – Researchers and students from divergent academic disciplines share an interest in the study of social movements and collective action. Through a variety of disciplinary approaches and techniques, researchers seek to understand the emergence and development of collective action. … Continue reading
Posted in Collective action, Social movements
Tagged collective action, social movements
Comments Off on Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines
Critical Mass, Social Networks and Collective Action
This article explores the role of ‘critical mass’ and social networks in the generation of collective action. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative (social network) data, the article argues that both are pivotal in the process whereby collective action takes shape. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Collective action, Movimientos sociales, Social movements, Social network
Tagged activism, collective action, movimientos sociales, social movements
Comments Off on Critical Mass, Social Networks and Collective Action
Learning Change 