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- W2002490303 abstract "It is easy to take an organization for granted. Today, the SSSI is a mature, vigorous, and inclusive association-one that is blessed with rich traditions, democratic mechanisms, and clear procedures for handling both routine business and unexpected challenges. As I said, however, it is easy to view these characteristics with complacency, to take them as givens, to see them as merely the unproblematic backdrop for our day-to-day activities on the Society’s front stage. Yet certainly, as sociologists-especially as interactionists-we know better. Once we put on our analysts’ caps, we immediately become aware of the facts that no social arrangement is ever “unproblematic” and that voluntary organizations may be especially iffy. There is no way of knowing for certain, of course, but I would guess that most voluntary organizations-like the “clubs” many of us created as children4ie before they ever reach maturity. And even among those that survive beyond their first few years, many remain the private demesnes of their founders, unwelcoming to newcomers and unresponsive to demands for more open and more accountable governance. The point is, then, that the SSSI need not have survived much beyond its founding and it need not have developed the characteristics it now possesses; there was nothing inevitable about either its survival or its development. But it did survive and it did develop in a certain way, and my goal here is to make a small contribution to the story of how that came about.’ I am going to tell my part of the story by casting it as a series of six lessons about voluntary organizations and how they work. I learned these lessons-very much retrospectively-from my first-hand experiences with the leadership of the SSSI in the late 1970s and 1980s. To students of social movements and other voluntary associations, these lessons will probably seem mere commonplaces, iterations of the obvious. But at the time, the lessons were certainly not obvious to me. During the period I will discuss, I responded to what was happening in the organization with emotional as well as cognitive distress and puzzlement. My after-the-fact attempts, reflected here, to make sense analytically of both the distress and the puzzlement should be understood, then, as yet another instance of transforming private troubles into public issues." @default.
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- W2002490303 title "From “Our Gang” to “Society For”: Reminiscences of an Organization in Transition" @default.
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