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The Strength of Weekly Ties: Relations of Material and Symbolic Exchange in the Conservative Movement

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  • Thomas Medvetz

    (University of California, Berkeley, tmm@berkeley.edu)

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The current Republican ascendancy in American government has generated considerable scholarly interest in the conservative movement. Through an ethno-graphic study of the widely publicized but seldom-observed “Wednesday meeting†of conservative activists, this article inquires into the bases of the conservative movement’s internal cohesion and successful management of alliances with state officials. I argue that the meeting functions as both an instrument of material power and a ritual of symbolic maintenance by establishing relations of reciprocal exchange and sustaining a moral community of conservative activists and their allies. More broadly, the article examines the mutual conditioning and genetic linkage of two dimensions of social reality: relations of force and relations of meaning.

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  • Thomas Medvetz, 2006. "The Strength of Weekly Ties: Relations of Material and Symbolic Exchange in the Conservative Movement," Politics & Society, , vol. 34(3), pages 343-368, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:34:y:2006:i:3:p:343-368
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329206290424
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