The gist of it -- Microfoundations -- Microconsiderations -- Change and stability in strategic action fields -- Illustrating the perspective: contention over race in the United States, 1932-1980 and the rise and fall of the mortgage securitization industry, 1969-2011 -- Methodological considerations -- Toward a theory of strategic action fields
Summary
In recent years there has been an outpouring of work at the intersection of social movement theory, organizational theory economic, and political sociology. The problems at the core of these areas, Fligstein and McAdam argue, have a similar analytic and theoretical structure
