Ideas
From Shared Concern to a Name for Change
Naming a shared concern for change helps people recognize common ground, see what a proposed solution includes, and…
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Read across ideas, movements, institutions, change and memory to see how collective action develops, encounters resistance and leaves lasting effects.
Movements
A Loose Network or a Formal Group?
A loose network or formal group shapes how a movement shares work, carries responsibility, and adapts. Learn which…
Institutions
When an Institution Changes Its Rules but Not Its Routine
Understand why institutional rules can change while routines persist, and compare ways to make written expectations…
Memory
The Turning-Point Story and What It Leaves Out
The turning-point story makes social change easy to remember; trace the quieter conditions and accumulated choices…
Change
A Reader’s Map for Following a Long Debate
A reader’s map for following a long debate separates the defined problem, proposed change, objections, and open…
Our point of view
Change becomes clearer when we follow its parts
We look beyond turning points to the ideas, relationships and decisions that make change possible, contested or durable.