It is not necessary to look out for big events to understand the dynamics of Collective action and cooperation. It is a very common phenomenon in our lives. Human Beings are by nature social and society itself is synonymous with co-operation and collective action. Humans formed the society because they felt the need for it . Human beings realised that a single person can not be efficient in all spheres of life.Even markets are formed out of this collective action. Here, we may say that collective action and cooperation takes place primarily due to selfish reasons.
Giving an example from the tribal village in West Bengal, the people work for each other in the village but do not charge money for that. In lieu of the work done, they expect the same from others. This is because of the fact that the family size of the villagers is small and they would not have enough of man power or economic power to get their work done.
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i disagree to the notion that human beings are by nature social...i think human beings by nature are selfish...but they curtail their selfishness consciously when they realise that everybody(including themselves) wil loose out if they stick to their selfishness...
a good example is milaap...i'm sure organising a milaap like program by students of cutting edge science research institute is impossible...as they have nothing to gain from organisational skills which can be used in future...but its possible in management institute as student understand that they can sharpen their organisational skills which they can use when they become real life managers...
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