scholarly journals Empirisk analyse af kollektiv handling: Nobelprisen i økonomi 2009 til Elinor Ostrom

Politik ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mogens K. Justesen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Action Problems

This article provides an introduction to the work of Elinor Ostrom, focusing on those parts of her research for which she awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009. Ostrom received the Nobel Prize mainly for her analyses of how groups of individuals organize and develop institutions to handle collective action problems. Ostrom also identifies a set of conditions that affect the likelihood that individuals successfully solve collective action problems. In this way, Ostrom provides a major contribution to the study of collective action in the social sciences. 

Institutional Design for Collective Action: Tweaking the Rules of the Game for the Common Good

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz-Dieter Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Urban Safety ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Abstract At present, institutional design is an under-theorized and underdeveloped part of the social sciences. In this paper I focus on designs for situations of collective action where the outcome is controlled by the choices of several self-interested actors. In those situations the goal of institutional design is to alter the rules of the game so that self-interested actors find it rational to cooperate. I explore the viability of that definition by considering two examples of institutional design: urban safety and academic peer review. I discuss the implications of my findings for our conception of rational self-interest and propose that three design principles – publicity, boundaries, and contiguity – can be inferred from the analysis.

Toward a Nobel Prize for the Social Sciences

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 57-58
Author(s):  
Irving Louis Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
The Social

Complex societies and social theory

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Scribano
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthony Giddens

A central issue in the social sciences today is the analysis of complex society, and topics like globalization, identity and self-identity, transformation of self and collective action become more and more important in social theory. This article intends to show (a) how the diagnosis of complexity affects the constitution of the topics at the heart of social theory and (b) what its major implications are from a theoretical and epistemic standpoint. Alberto Melucci and Anthony Giddens being among the most representative social scientists in this field, I examine each one's approaches and argue that we are in the presence of an “existential turn” in social theory.

scholarly journals Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Damtew ◽  
Barbara van Mierlo ◽  
Rico Lie ◽  
Paul Struik ◽  
Cees Leeuwis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Late Blight ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
Crop Disease ◽  
Late Blight Management

AbstractThere has been strong research interest in designing and testing learning approaches for enhancing and sustaining the capacity of communities to manage collective action problems. Broadening the perspective from well-known social learning approaches in natural resource management, this study explores how social learning as a communicative process influences collective action in contagious crop disease management. A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. Communicative utterances of participants in the sessions served as the units of analysis. The study demonstrates how and to what extent social learning, in the form of aligned new knowledge, relations and actions occurred and formed the basis for collective action in the management of late blight.

Scholastic fallacies? Questioning the Anthropocene

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362199327
Author(s):  
Sighard Neckel
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Theory Formation ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional Interests

The view that we live in the Anthropocene is increasingly gaining currency across scientific disciplines. Especially in sociology this is said to require a paradigm shift in analysis and theory formation. This article argues that such a conclusion is premature. Owing to a scholastic fallacy – the uncritical transposition of the concept from the natural to the social sciences – Anthropocene lacks analytic clarity and explanatory power evidenced by: a normative overreach that erroneously imagines an idealised world citizenry with collective action capacities; an obfuscation of the unequal distribution of ecological pathologies caused by capitalism; a normative indeterminacy concerning modes of redress; and an abstract ecological universalism offered as moral panacea. The article suggests that sociology needs to address the Anthropocene’s heterogeneity marked by contradictory regional interests and inequalities that neither appeals to social justice or ‘one humanity’ nor an escape into a dissolution of ontological differences between actors and artefacts can redeem. To that end, sociologists are asked to undertake a critical reconstruction of the concept.

Motivating a “Thinkable Politics”

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-181
Author(s):  
Tim Christion ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
Climate Response ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Dialectical Phenomenology

Climate change is one of the greatest collective action problems ever faced. The social and cultural barriers to intersubjectively motivating concern and agency are sweeping. It seems all but impossible to imagine politically viable solutions commensurate with the realities of the problem, and likewise find visionary ways of framing this problem to inspire meaningful solutions. One therefore perceives an abyss between ‘problem’ and ‘solution,’ as expressed in irreconcilable debates between problem-driven and solution-driven strategies for motivating climate action. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s dialectical phenomenology of motivation and class consciousness in particular, I argue that his call for a “thinkable politics” can help activists bring problem-driven and solution-driven motives for climate response into productive relation.

Toward a Nobel Prize for the Social Sciences

PS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Irving Louis Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Social Practice as Arts-based Methodology: Exploring Participation, Multiplicity, and Collective Action as Elements of Inquiry

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Lynn Sanders-Bustle
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Finding

Claims that the arts are a kind of research is nothing new, finding relevance for scholars in the social sciences and the arts (Barone & Eisner, 2011; Cahnmann Taylor & Siegesmund, 2018; Leavy, 2019, 2009; Sullivan, 2005). Given that art is continuously being reimagined, it follows that arts-based research takes into account contemporary artistic processes and materials and the theories, aesthetic philosophies and contexts that shape them. In this paper, this author considers socially engaged art in the context of arts-based research and raises the question, what can be learned from social practice as an arts-based methodology?  The work of three socially engaged artists are referenced to demonstrate how distinct qualities associated with social practice, such as shared participation, multiplicity, and collective action offer new considerations for arts-based research that aims to bring about social change.

scholarly journals Toward a Nobel Prize for the Social Sciences

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-20
Author(s):  
IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Better Than Rational: A Naturalistic View of Economic Governance

2017 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
J.W. Stoelhorst
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Naturalistic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Action Problems ◽  
The Face ◽  
Better Than

The purpose of this paper is to present a recently emerging evolutionary approach to the study of human organization that I will refer to as ‘naturalistic’, and to highlight its integrative potential for the social and administrative sciences. This naturalistic approach considers the various forms of human cooperation as products of gene-culture co-evolutionary processes, and in doing so goes to the heart of the collective action problems that are central to explaining the human condition. Moreover, in building empirically grounded explanations of human behavior and organization, it also offers an alternative to the traditional view of governance in economic theory, with its emphasis on decentralized exchange and rational self-interested choice. The naturalistic approach both explains why human nature has evolved to the point where we often can do ‘better than rational’ in the face of the social dilemmas underlying collective action problems, and why modern forms of social, economic, and political organization are nevertheless always prone to being undermined by these same dilemmas.

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