10 Facts About Collective action

Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their condition and achieve a common objective.

Where a group membership is disadvantaged, SIT implicates three variables in the evocation of collective action to improve conditions for the group – permeability of group boundaries, legitimacy of the intergroup structures, and the stability of these relationships.

For example, when disadvantaged groups perceive intergroup status relationships as illegitimate and unstable, collective action is predicted to occur, in an attempt to change status structures for the betterment of the disadvantaged group.

Economic theory of collective action is concerned with the provision of public goods through the collaboration of two or more individuals, and the impact of externalities on group behavior.

Mancur Olson's 1965 book The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, is an important early analysis of the problems of public good cost.

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Term collective action problem describes the situation in which multiple individuals would all benefit from a certain action, but has an associated cost making it implausible that any individual can or will undertake and solve it alone.

Solutions to collective action problems include mutually binding agreements, government regulation, privatisation, and assurance contracts, known as crowdacting.

In Searle Searle argues that what lies at the heart of a collective action is the presence in the mind of each participant of a "we-intention".

Teachings of Confucius have led to a kind of collective action that's based on the principal of "saving face" and other behavioral norms found taught in the Analects.

One of the largest instances of Confucian-style collective action took place 1867 in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, where Chinese workers protested peacefully and negotiated for an outcome in a way that clearly demonstrated a kind of spontaneous consensus that's based on Confucian face-saving behavior.