Friends, I'm tryin to understand why collective action would happen from an individual's point of view.
My view is that all of us are selfish initially. But it is only when we progress through life that we understand there are limitations to what we can achieve by self-interest alone. Hence, wouldnt it be sufficient to look at an individuals development through life to ascertain whether he will support a collective action intervention at some point of time?
If this is the case, then what we have to focus on is why collective action fails even when there is a critical mass of collective-action-oriented individuals...(societal study)
If this is not the case, then we have to inspect on what triggers support for collective action at individual level...(individual study)..
2 comments:
i think your question has an answer in it.. what i mean is that a person is calculative of what he or she gets and at what costs. thing here is that there are two types of returns, long term and short term. when a person sees some long term interest, he or she may not mind to skip the short term return, if he feels the former is better. any collective action is thus triggered by this rational behaviour of seeing things a long way. i mean, this incentive of better returns of a collective action is foreseen and collective action is triggered.
irfan, i feel collective action can also be short term...
but i have understood that my question is too general and winding after todays class..also i'm talking more in igb mode rather than sociological aspects...
hence i dont think v will reach anywhere, given the ambiguity in my question...
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