• DOI:10.1177/0002764297040004006
Corpus ID: 144818704

The Social Invention of Collective Actors

@article{Pedersen1997TheSI,
  title={The Social Invention of Collective Actors},
  author={Jesper Pedersen and F. Dobbin},
  journal={American Behavioral Scientist},
  year={1997},
  volume={40},
  pages={431 - 443}
}

Jesper Pedersen, F. Dobbin

Published 1997

Sociology

American Behavioral Scientist

Since the middle of the 19th century, the formal organization has been constructed as a legitimate collective actor in and of itself. How did it rise to sit alongside the nation-state as one of the principal forms of collective action in modern society? The authors argue that the scientific epistemology of the Enlightenment provided a model in which the social world, like the natural world, was to be understood through the classification of forms and the enumeration of particular instantiations… CONTINUE READING

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