본문 바로가기
  • Home

A Study on the Emergence, the Development and the Institutionalization of Social Movement against Unemployment in Gang-wom Province

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2005, 3(1), pp.207~239
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

엄형식 1

1한림대학교

ABSTRACT

This study address the emergence, the development and the institutionalization of social movement against unemployment in Gang-won province from 1998 to 2002 with the political process model theory of D. McAdam. The emergence of the movement against unemployment in Gang-won province was affected by the neo-liberal political-economic circumstance, the movement against unemployment in a national level and the economic situation in a regional level. The existing social movements in Gang-won province played a role as the foundation of micro-mobilization. The movements in 4 main cities of Gang-won province (Gang-neung, Chuncheon, Wonju, Taebaek) had different aspects by the character of the existing social movement network in each city. But, the movement against unemployment in Gangwon province had some common features. : a bias toward service-based activities, a dependance on the resources of the government and of the pro-government funds and a initiative of the moderate parts in the regional social movement. With the economic recovery, the movement organizations chose the process into institutionalization to maintain their stable resources. But as the result of institutionalization, some organizations had fallen into the problem of demobilization and of identity. These experiences show that the rational behaviour focusing on the resource-mobilization would rather make the regression of social movement and that to overcome the negative effects of the institutionalization, strategical actions of the organizations to maintain their own identities are important.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2024 are currently being built.