Introduction: the sociology of collective action reconsidered

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The sociology of collective action seeks to demonstrate how active life overcomes inertia and how actors constitute themselves as subjects in ways that are subtle and unpredictable. The article reviews social movement theories with the critical aim of building a new platform for discussing the relationship between subjects and collective action.

Social movements

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The promise of random-assignment social experiments for understanding well-being and behavior

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The large-scale random-assignment social experiments like Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project address important sociological and developmental issues. The methods and results from the recent sets of random-assignment experiments are reviewed.

Science & research, Behavior Theory, Research, Human behavior, Social service, Child welfare, Human acts, Social welfare, Human behaviour

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When methods make a difference

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The state of findings in research literatures could be redefined or redirected by the application of methods. The substantive literatures are set off by the limitations built into widely used methodological frameworks to analyze data.

Services, not elsewhere classified, Literature, Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers

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