풀뿌리 운동의 형성 과정

Abstract

This essay reviews Kathleen Blees book, Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form, which received the Charles Tilly Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Associations Collective Behaviors and Social Movements section in 2013. It studies almost seventy fledgling grassroots groups whose sustainability was yet to be determined during the moment of her research teams ethnographic fieldwork. Relying on interviews and fieldnotes (produced according to semi‐structured interview questionnaires and fieldnote items), Blee argues that the formation of grassroots activism is always in a state of interaction whose unfolding can both reinforce and transform sequences of actions and events. In this essay, I briefly summarize Blees research design and introduce a comparative analysis of multiple cases along with recommendations for further reading.