The Emotional «Man» and the Problem of Collective Action

The Author: Helena Flam received her Fil.Kand. at the University of Lund, Sweden and her Ph.D. at Columbia University, New York. She was a researcher at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, fellow at the Max Planck Institute (Köln) and assistant professor at the University of Konstanz. Since 1993 she is professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig.

Contents: Models of social action - Social structure - Formal organizations - Work organizations - Social movements - Sociology of emotions - Unstable labor markets - Symbolic worlds - Career-making and lay-offs - Civil rights movement - The rescue of Jews during the Holocaust - Opposition in the Soviet system.