Using Social Network Analysis to Explore Social Movements: A Relational Approach
Using Social Network Analysis to Explore Social Movements: A Relational Approach
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使用社交网络分析探索社会运动：关系方法
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2007
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C. Saunders
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本文使用“关系”方法进行网络分析，以证明伦敦不同类型的环境组织之间的联系。使用“关系”方法来避免与“位置”方法相关的问题，例如结构决定论，主观定义和误导性标记的“近似”等效参与者块，以及网络的行动/问题基础的具体化。本文还探讨了社会/环境运动的定义。虽然广泛同意Diani对社会运动的共识定义，但它认为我们需要更精确地确定所需网络的类型和强度；它必须不仅仅是非正式的或粗略的，而且应该将个人和组织结合到协作网络中。对149个环保组织的调查和对主要活动家的定性访谈表明，尽管许多组织可能会共享信息，但这些信息往往被储存或忽视，很难形成可能导致共享运动身份的网络联系。联结运动的纽带是协作的。在实践中，在伦敦的环境运动中，环保主义者往往既不分享信息，也不参与改革派或激进组织的集体行动事件，这表明环保主义者可能不应该被视为运动的一部分。
This paper uses a ‘relational’ approach to network analysis to demonstrate the linkages between different types of environmental organizations in London. A ‘relational’ approach was used to avoid problems associated with ‘positional’ approaches such as structural determinism, subjectively defined and misleadingly labelled blocks of ‘approximately’ equivalent actors, and reification of the action/issue basis of networks. The paper also explores definitions of social/environmental movements. Whilst broadly agreeing with Diani's consensual definition of a social movement, it argues that we need to be much more precise about the type and intensity of networking required; it must be more than informal or cursory, and should bind individuals and organizations into collaborative networks. Evidence from a survey of 149 environmental organizations and qualitative interviews with key campaigners suggests that whilst many organizations might share information, it is often stockpiled or ignored, hardly creating the kinds of network links that might lead to shared movement identity. The kinds of links that do bind movements are collaborative. In practice, in the environmental movement in London, conservationists tend neither to share information nor to engage in the collective action events of reformist or radical organizations, suggesting that conservationists should perhaps not be considered part of the movement.