How to Work on Identity in Collective Action Studies: a Proposal
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This paper deals with the usefulness of the concept of collective identity and some associated theoretical developments for sociological research. Drawing from the combination of the classic thought of Herbert Mead and Emile Durkheim and through the more relevant contributions of Pizzorno and Beriain, I sketch a practical approach that distances from static and narrow perspectives, while pushing forward the plasticity, flexibility and interaction between individual identity and collective identity. The proposal is applied to three very different cases of collective action focusing on the processual and multilevel nature of social phenomena. In all of them the transition towards a collective identity means public cooperation and solving personal conflict both together. The importance of considering differences in the intensity and levels in the relationship between collective and individual identity shows that being in a process of identification can be as explanatory as being part of an identity as a closed reality.
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identification process, collective action, in-between places, methodological flexibility
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