Introduction: A Mesoworld
1. Coordination: The Dynamics of Collaboration and Commitment
2. Relations: Friendship and the Politics of Sociability
3. Association: Bonding, Banding, and Bridging
4. Place: Performance and Solidarity
5. Conflict: Scratching Consensus’s Veneer
6. Control: Patrolling Civil Society
7. Extensions: Tiny Publics and Distant Worlds
Conclusion: Circuits of Action
Afterword: The COVID Hinge
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Gary Alan Fine is the James E. Johnson Professor of
Sociology at Northwestern University. He has written many books,
including, most recently Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and
the Practice of Culture and Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds
Community and Culture, both published by the University of Chicago
Press.
"Fine’s new book… offers a theoretically informed research agenda
for thinking about the local in a social media saturated global
world. It is compelling [and] well written, and [it] opens up a
range of new possibilities for research."
*Symbolic Interactions*
"The Hinge takes up an ambitious task and delivers a formidable
response; it successfully situates the mesolevel at the center of
the classic macro-micro puzzle of sociology. . . With The
Hinge, Fine has equipped the platoon of small group scholars with a
powerful set of tools that will serve them well as they continue to
advance the front line."
*Contemporary Sociology*
"Gary Alan Fine’s The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the
Power of Local Commitments develops a set of analytical tools for
meso-level analysis of collective behavior. The work registers the
constitutive nature of micro and macro phenomena via group
dynamics—what he terms 'the hinge.' While not dismissing earlier
approaches, Fine successfully substantiates the importance of the
unique interactive processes that occur when individuals come
together."
*Mobilization*
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