10          Introduction
This dimension, however, does not exhaust the significance of collective action. Contemporary collective action weaves together its different roots in multiple meanings, legacies from the past, the effects of modernization, resistances to change. The complexity, the irreducibility, the intricate semantics of the meaning ÖT sociaíaction is perhaps the most fundamental themel^7lřTrbl5oi031E[y a societyjlijitjsjubkjc^^ommo^ oTTETíííovenTeřnlí by providing an uncojnstajnejdja^eim Joi^the funda-méntUliššuSšTä^
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PART I
Theory of collective action