social movements exam 2

sympathy pool

anyone who has positive feelings for any reason toward the movement

what impacts participation

biographical availability

beliefs & ideology

social networks (informal networks)

organized ties (formal networks)

collective ID

previous experience

social media

Overton Window

the range of topics and opinions acceptable to be had

Dolores Huerta

everyday forms of resistance

false compliance

slow downs

sabotage

feigned ignorance

foot dragging

slander

arson

4 commonalities

no coordination

implicit understanding and informal networks

represent a form of individual self-help

avoid direct symbolic confrontation w/ authority

who are the weak?

peasant class

social point

proves education/ combats stereotypes

substantive point

words frame a situation in people’s head for both oppressed and oppressor

why did the black panthers label cops as pigs?

pigs have no positive connotation/ consistently seen as dirty

things needed for social movement

pre-existing communication networks

co-optable communcation networks

subsequent movements

crisis or new organization formed

who creates who: social movemens/organizations

organizations are less likely to create social movements than be created by them

co-optation

when leaders start identifying more with their opposition than who they’re advocating for

pastoral power

responsible for the well-being of a person’s mind

what does the knowledge regime turn a person into?

a subject to which someone else (“an expert” can claim to know you better than you know yourself

what is a knowledge regime?

where power lies