Does the Spanish 15M have an ideology? Issues of method and measurement

Autors/ores

  • Rubén Díez García Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Profesor Asociado) Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Doctorando) http://uc3m.academia.edu/RUBENDIEZGARCIA

Resum

The broad aim of this paper is to look into the implications of applying two different methods of research and analytical assumptions to the study of social movements. In order to develop and discuss this aim, I focus my analysis on the emergence of a social movement that impacted Spanish society in 2011: the ‘indignados’ movement 15M. Particularly, in this case, I confront the main conclusions of two different methodological approaches that analyze the emergence of the movement, focusing my interest in the ideological roots of its collective identity. The first approach is mainly based on ethnographic data (Laraña & Díez, 2012a; 2012b) and the second one consists of a statistical macro-analysis. Whereas in the two first works we highlighted the most micro and intersubjective aspects of the social action, through ethnographic techniques, that allowed us to study how the activists organize the actions of the movement, spread their frames and construct its collective identity, this paper mainly focuses on macro statistical data in order to: i) analyze the ideological bases of the movement, ii) compare the results obtained regarding this issue from the both aforementioned approaches, and iii) look at their complementarities.

Paraules clau

Collective identity, Ideology, Indignados, Methodology, New Left, Social movements, Spanish 15M

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Biografia de l'autor/a

Rubén Díez García, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Profesor Asociado) Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Doctorando) http://uc3m.academia.edu/RUBENDIEZGARCIA

Lecturer of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences. He received his B.A. and Master of Advanced Studies in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), and a Postgraduate in applied social research and data analysis from the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). He also collaborates in the Departmental Section of Sociology III (Social Structure) in the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (UCM), in which he is currently carrying out his doctoral thesis “Method issues in the study of social participation”.

He has also been Lecturer of Sociology and Statistics in the High School of Advertising of Madrid and has done field work research on: voluntary organizations & social movements (with Professor Enrique Laraña), social exclusion & prisons, youth & tobacco consumption, environmental & safety risks, training requirements and industrial heritage. He has published and presented several papers and communications on social participation & voluntary organizations, emotions and social movements (with Simone Belli), tobacco consumption in young people, reintegration of ex-offenders and industrial heritage of Madrid.

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04-11-2014

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Díez García, R. (2014). Does the Spanish 15M have an ideology? Issues of method and measurement. Athenea Digital. Revista De Pensamiento E investigación Social, 14(3), 199–217. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1252

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