Lecture on social movement theory. Answers your basic questions about what social movements are, why social researchers care about studying social movements, and how that is commonly done.
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20. Collective identity “ Collective identity is an interactive and shared definition produced by a number of individuals (or groups) concerning the orientations of their action and field of opportunities and constraints in which such action is to take place. By ‘interactive’ and ‘shared’ I mean that these elements are constructed and negotiated through a recurrent process of activation of the relations that bind actors together” (Melucci 1996:70).