Melucci, Alberto,  1943- <br/><br/>
Challenging codes :  collective action in the information age / 
Alberto Melucci. 
 - xiii, 441 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge cultural social studies .
 - Cambridge cultural social studies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-430) and index. 
<br/><br/> Theory of Collective Action: --  The construction of collective action --  Conflict and change --  Action and meaning --  The process of collective identity --  Contemporary Collective Action: --  conflicts of culture --  Invention of the present --  The time of difference --  Roots for today and for tomorrow --  A search for ethics --  Information, power, domination --  The Field of Collective Action: --  A society without a centre --  The political system --  The state and the distribution of social resources --  Modernization, crisis, and conflict: the case of Italy --  Acting Collectively: --  Mobilization and political participation --  The organization of movements --  Leadership in social movements --  Collective action and discourse --  Forms of action --  Research on collective action.  Part I.  1.  2.  3.  4.  Part II.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  Part III.  11.  12.  13.  14.  Part IV.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20. 
<br/><br/> "In Challenging codes, leading social theorist Alberto Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the experience of the individual in postmodern society. The focus is on the role of information in an age which knows both fragmentation and globalization, building on the analysis of collective action familiar from the author's Nomads of the present. At the same time, a fresh, social psychological nuance is drawn out, which reflects the preoccupations of The playing self, the companion volume to Challenging codes, published in Cambridge Cultural Social Studies." "Alberto Melucci addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, including political conflict and change, feminism, ecology, identity politics, power and inequality, synthesizing cutting-edge research in sociology, anthropology and psychology."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521570514 9780521570510 0521578434 9780521578431 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96003883 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Collective behavior<br/>Social action<br/>Social movements<br/>Group identity
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM281  / .M42 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.484