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Social Ecology as Political Economy: A Case Study in the Anthropology of Complexity

Social Ecology as Political Economy: A Case Study in the Anthropology of Complexity A VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION of family planners serves a population of about 100,000 in the center of a web of local, regional, and national relationships with other organizations within the family planning movement and with public bureaucracies, a web that structures the association's opportunities and constraints. The dynamics of purposive action within this web are traced using a power‐conscious, open‐systems model that illuminates process at the microsocial level. The analysis of this political economy of voluntary group action suggests that a comprehensive understanding of macrosocial forces requires a view from the bottom, from the actual grounded realities. Examination of resource strategizing necessitates consideration of value rationality, (voluntary associations, social ecology, open‐systems models, political economy, value rationality) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Social Ecology as Political Economy: A Case Study in the Anthropology of Complexity

City & Society , Volume 1 (2) – Dec 1, 1987

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0893-0465
eISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1525/city.1987.1.2.122
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Abstract

A VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION of family planners serves a population of about 100,000 in the center of a web of local, regional, and national relationships with other organizations within the family planning movement and with public bureaucracies, a web that structures the association's opportunities and constraints. The dynamics of purposive action within this web are traced using a power‐conscious, open‐systems model that illuminates process at the microsocial level. The analysis of this political economy of voluntary group action suggests that a comprehensive understanding of macrosocial forces requires a view from the bottom, from the actual grounded realities. Examination of resource strategizing necessitates consideration of value rationality, (voluntary associations, social ecology, open‐systems models, political economy, value rationality)

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City & SocietyWiley

Published: Dec 1, 1987

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