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Life Course Patterns of National Associations

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This article draws on the preceding seven histories of national associations to examine commonalities and differences among them. The histories portray different strategies of organizing associations and adapting themselves to state control, societal conditions and members' interests. A disciplinary model was the most prevalent organizing strategy, but its viability ebbed and flowed with political oppression, the state of sociology as a discipline and internal associational conditions such as disciplinary composition and dissension. Two of the seven associations have survived continuously since being founded, while the other five have perished and been reborn from one to five times. Political oppression and internal associational dissension are what are mainly responsible for these associational deaths; for the state of sociology and its place in the academy for rebirths; and for the organizational cooptation of member interests for associational survival and growth.

Key Words: associational adaptive strategies • associational births and deaths • associational life course patterns • national disciplinary associations

International Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 285-303 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0268580902017002009


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