Special Topics in the Sociology of Collective Action and Social Movements [Seminar]

The course focuses on current and specific phenomena of organized collective action and specific social actors and institutions that seek social change. It is also related to issues of social identity as the social and cultural construction of identity in post-industrial society is a fundamental issue for the formation and development of contemporary social movements. The subject approaches: (a) The form of the relationship between social movements and social change in conditions of fluid globalization, through case studies (b) the analysis of the relationship between individual and collective identity and the dynamic interaction between fluidity - fragmentation and coherent life contexts, (c) issues of sovereignty, collective subjects of action and interactions 'from below' (d) the strategies or 'antidotes' that movements use in order to deal with the conditions of fluidity and structural ambiguity of action in the contemporary social system. (e) anticipatory and reflective policies and issues of community and solidarity.