Calhoun, Craig (1983) The radicalism of tradition: community strength or venerable disguise and borrowed language? American Journal of Sociology, 88 (5). pp. 886-914. ISSN 0002-9602
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Abstract
An equation has often been made, especially but not exclusively by Marxists,between radicalism and the rational understanding of objective interests. I argue that, on the contrary, commitments to traditional cultural values and immediate communal relations are crucial to many radical movements, (a)because these commitments provide populations with the extent of internal social organization necessary to concerted, radical collective action, and (b) because the largely defensive goals of these movements must be radically incompatible with the introduction of modern capitalist-dominated social formations. Reformism is the characteristic stance of the modern working class, for both social and cultural reasons.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/amerjsoci/about.... |
| Additional Information: | © 1983 University of Chicago Press |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2012 15:07 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 12:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/42435 |
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