„Nowi niepokorni”. Powstanie Komitetu Obrony Robotników jako wyzwanie dla teorii socjologicznej

• Authors: Hella Dietz

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THE „NEW DEFIANT ONES”. THE EMERGENCE OF THE WORKERS’ DEFENSE COMMITTE AS A CHALLENGE TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The emergence of Poland’s Komitet Obrony Robotników, KOR, is a challenge for social movement research whose concepts were mainly developed studying movements in Western democratic countries. The currently dominating structuralist rationalist approach tends to reduce protests to a strategic reaction to favourable opportunity structures. Although this approach offers an adequate evolutionary explanation for KOR’s success, it does not offer a convincing causal explanation for its emergence and the mobilization of activists. This article develops an alternative explanation, using concepts from theories of collective identity, american pragmatism, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber.

Keywords

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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; SOLIDARNOSC; SOCIAL MOBILIZATION; COLLECTIVE IDENTITY; PRAGMATISM

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3(210)
• Pages: 97–121

Contributors

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Hella Dietz

• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Soziologie Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073 Göttingen