Lecture 17

Political process model

Political process model

Accepts entrepreneurial model but suggests that the political environment affects whether and how resources can be used

Opening

If there isn't a political ______ people can't use resource to mobilize movement

Democratic

Social movements only emerged after _______ rule increased

Public, numbers, right, freedom, rights

Democracy legitimizes _______ discussions, places emphasis on _____ of people supporting, promotes ______ to assemble, promotes ______ of speech, and promotes rule of law and human ______

New social movement theory

Theory that views old SM as interest based and new SM as not having clear interests or objectives

Moral

New social movement theory considers the ______ aspect of SM

Capitalism

New social movement theory sees _______ as a structural cause

Marxists

Most new social movement theorists are neo-_______

Post-somethings

Characterized by the diminution of class conflict, expansion of cultural, consumption and leisure activités, and the growth of tertiary and service sectors

Capitalist

New social movement theory reacts to post-something capitalism so it is concentrated in ________ countries

Transform

Social movements confront capitalism and want to _____ it by raising awareness of its problems

Goals, critiques

New SM focus on broad _______ without a clear endpoint, providing general ______ of capitalism

Leadership

According to RMT, Occupy Wall Street movement was not sustainable because it lacked ______ which hindered movement success

Awareness, successful

NSM considers that Occupy Wall Street's goal wasn't short term it was more greater _______ about inequality so it was ______ at this

Hegemony

Sees capitalists as controlling ideas through their control of major social institutions (ideological control)

Counter-hegemony

New social movements want to change the mentalities of people by weakening capitalist ideology

Chains, free

Gramsci said that we need to free people from the "mental ______" of capitalism so they can see it's imperfections and become _____-thinking individuals

Rationalization

When people create rules to get organizations to work so everyone works toward the same goal

Modernization

Habermas believes that ______ has promoted the rationalisation of the System and Lifeworld

Institutions

According to Habermas, the problem is that systemic rationalization promotes powerful ________

Bureaucracy, critical

There is a dominance of markets and ______ which promote non-reflexive community so not _______ thinking

lifeworld, questioning

new SM help to advance the __________ realm and make it stronger by raising consciousness and ________ the world

change, expanding

Habermas claims that new SM must pursue actual _______ that involves ________ the Lifeworld real

emotional

participation in SM is usually an _______ affair that promotes joy satisfaction, hope, and anger

rational, less

the study of social movements has focused on people as Klingons: hyper ______ and emotion_____

emotions

Jasper argues that you can't understand SM without considering ________

collective action problem

because people act in calculated ways to maximize interests, it is irrational to participate in creating public goods

public goods

roads and other goods that are available to all members of the public

rider

if everyone is a free-______, no public goods are created

incentives

we can overcome the collective action problem by giving selective _______

carrots, sticks

analogy: _____ = if you help with this we will give you ... ______ = if you don't help with this we will punish you

emotions, rational

participation in SM is very costly so it is ________ that motivate us to make sacrifices and participate even if it's not _______

personal

emotions cause the disregard of ________ interests for emotional reasons

provoke

successful SM frame issues to ________ emotions so people join

sustain

emotions _______ movement participation

collective emotions

emotions that are intertwined with collective identities

in, out

there is love/concern for ____-group and anger/fear of ____-group

emotions

______ play a great role in group identity

symbols

SM commonly use _______ to spark emotions and promote participation

nationalist movements

use symbols to represent the nation/community

disgust

the desecration of national symbols can provoke great emotion such as _______

participation

emphasizing national symbols increases movement ________

otherness

defining nation based on what it is not and who is not a member promotes ______

other, anger

nationalist movements use symbols of the ____ to highlight threat to the nation, provoking ________

Muslim

Hindu nationalist movement in India uses ______ conquest as a symbol of threat

identity affirmation

participation affirms collective identity and makes you feel good about yourself

alleviation

participation helps to alleviate negative collective emotions and cope with them through solidarity with other participants