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The collaboration of voluntary associations in the civil society is called mesomobilization. This research focuses on the clustering of the civil society, which is the result of networking through the mesomobilization of the associations. This research employed the data obtained from “Participation Network of Korean Civil Organizations in a number of issues during 2005” published by <NGO Times>. It collected the records of the collaboration of associations during the year 2005 and transformed them into the matrix of the form. A collaborative network showed distinction by both attributive effects and the network effects. Multidimensional scaling analysis showed four remarkable clusters in civil society. Concerning attributive factors, the associations established before '90s in the labor/political fields hold less budget scale than the reference group(B=-0.614; 95%CI: 0.296-0.989). Concerning network factors, collective index(B=0.008; 95%CI: 1.003-1.013) and hierarchical index(B=0.005; 95%CI: 1.002-1.007) showed high values in the environmental fields and hierarchical index(B=0.005; 95%CI: 1.003-1.007) in local community fields. These clusters are affected by several important factors: First, differentiation by its domain of activity, that appears gradually in 174 시민사회와 NGO 2008 제6권 제2호 environmental and local community fields from '90s. Second, diastrophism in the labor/political fields, meaning that small informal associations before '90s have been merged into a large cluster of ideology struggle in the public domain.

Social Movements, Civil Society, Voluntary Association, Mesomobilization, Network Analysis, Korea