Bridge-builders and personal ties let coalitions adjust practices to partners’ legitimacy needs
Evidence
Chazan (2016), for instance, highlights how, in part, through individual members’ personal connections, the Raging Grannies became alert to the need to tone down some of their practices, such as their outrageous costumes and satirical songs, in order to meet the needs of the indigenous environmental activists for whom they sought to be Conflicts are inevitable, according to the literature, particularly for entities that work across difference (e. — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 244
Categorization
- XREF: Directly supports the reading purpose — protective solidarity that adapts to rather than erases difference; Chazan’s Raging Grannies toning down costumes to respect indigenous partners parallels how movements negotiate self-presentation. — connects to: Agency relationships drive social differentiation and bridge exchange distances — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 18; Ongoing relations make the trusted party’s own interests compel fulfilling trust — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 112; Coalitions across divides work better decentralized, prioritizing local knowledge and autonomy. — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 215 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Social capital divides into bonding and bridging forms that aid cooperation.
#expands(0.80) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 48 - Coalitions across divides work better decentralized, prioritizing local knowledge and autonomy.
#qualifies(0.78) — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 215 - Championing community inadvertently strengthens exclusionary bonding over inclusive bridging ties
#complicates(0.76) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1443 - Ongoing relations make the trusted party’s own interests compel fulfilling trust
#corroborates(0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 112 - Group cohesion grows from networked personal bonds, not mere shared categories
#corroborates(0.73) — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor, 52 - Agency relationships drive social differentiation and bridge exchange distances
#expands(0.72) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 18