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Talking Collective Action: A Sequential Analysis of Strategic Planning in Anti-Nuclear Groups book cover

1st Edition

Talking Collective Action A Sequential Analysis of Strategic Planning in Anti-Nuclear Groups

By Ole Pütz Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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An ethnographic study of anti-nuclear movement groups that both challenges assumptions of traditional social movement studies of strategic action and shows what can be gained through microanalysis of talk in meetings, this book advances social movement studies methodologically and theoretically through the application of a new method of sequential analysis. Drawing on both conversation analysis... Read more

1. Introduction  2. A Very Short History of the German Anti-Nuclear Movement and a Few of its Groups  3. A Method of Sequential Analysis  4. Consensus Building in Meetings: Specifically Vague Proposals and Changes in Footing  5. Endangered Consensus? From Disagreements to Conflict Avoidance  6. How Groups Assess and Revise Tactics: The Styles of Being Critical and Thinking Small  7. Decision-Making in a Complex Campaign: A Confrontation of Styles and Struggle with Key Expressions  8. Crisis and Continuity: Styles and Group Development Over Time  9. Conclusion: Styles and Group Relations to the Environment Appendix: Transcript Conventions  References  Online Appendix I: A Critical Dialogue between Conversation Analysis and Objective Hermeneutics  Online Appendix II: Additional Data & Analyses  Online Appendix III: German transcripts and English Translations

Biography

Ole Pütz is a researcher at the Semantic Computing Group, Cognitive Interaction Technology Cluster of Excellence, Bielefeld University, Germany.

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