Diani (2003) ‘Introduction: Social Movements, Contentious Actions, and Social Networks.’
Citation: Diani, Mario (2003) ‘Introduction: Social Movements, Contentious Actions, and Social Networks: “From Metaphor to Substance”?,’ in Mario Diani and Doug McAdam (eds.) Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-18.
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Diani (2003:1): SMs cannot be reduced to single events or organizations, but instead are individuals and groups “linked in patterns of interaction which run from the fairly centralized to the totally decentralized, from the cooperative to the explicitly hostile. Persons promoting and/or supporting their actions do so not as atomized individuals, possibly with similar values or social traits, but as actors linked to each other through complex webs of exchanges, either direct or mediated. Social movements are in other words, complex and highly heterogeneous network structures.”