Institutional Environments, Sociopolitical Processes, and Health Movement Organizations: The Growth of Self-Help/Mutual-Aid

This study examines the relationship between sociopolitical processes and health social movement organization formation. Two central research questions are posed: How do self-help/mutual-aid institutional environments characterized by professional actors, the state, and social movements influence or...

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Published in:Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.) N.J.), 2008-03, Vol.23 (1), p.84-115
Main Author: Archibald, Matthew E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assistance
Encyclopedias
Health
Health care industry
Health care organizations
health movement organizations
Health promotion
institutional environments
Institutions
mutual-aid
Organizational Structure
Organizations
Physicians
Political conditions
Political movements
Population density
Population growth
Professionalism
Self-help
Social Movements
Social structures
Social welfare
Sociology
Sociology of health and medicine
sociopolitical processes
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Summary:This study examines the relationship between sociopolitical processes and health social movement organization formation. Two central research questions are posed: How do self-help/mutual-aid institutional environments characterized by professional actors, the state, and social movements influence organizational formation, and do these influences grow stronger or weaker as the self-help/mutual-aid movement matures? Analyses comparing the impact of institutional factors such as physician hegemony and autonomy, professional affiliation, state spending, and political ties on self-help/mutual-aid founding rates reveal negative effects of professionals but positive effects of the state. These relationships tend to grow stronger as the movement matures. For example, declining professional authority increasingly eases organizational foundings during movement maturity as does the beneficial impact on formation of state expansion in health markets and political ties. Implications are discussed.
ISSN:0884-8971
1573-7861
DOI:10.1111/j.1573-7861.2007.00047.x