Wednesday, February 3, 2010
collective action and leadership
Today we discussed that dominant personality motivates collective action, i agree they have more benefit than others ,but what if he would not have taken collective action, what about the benefit received by poor which would not have been possible in absence of collective action even if it is less, we agree that poor get benefit.
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The question is not clear. But, as far as I understand, collective action takes place naturally in hard times. When the question of survival comes in, a dominant person arises and he steers the collective action against the oppression. And, if the poor needs benefit, I think it will happen only if there is a collective action. If a collective voice is not raised, there are big chances that they will be suppressed.
the 'dominant leader' involuntarily provides organising skills to the people in the collective action. Later, if his demands become too much for these members, the group might as well dispense with him.
Or, if the collective benefits derived by the group is still more than the cost incurred by them, they can still organise themselves for collective action for some other cause which might be antagonistic to the 'dominant leader's' interests.
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