Social Movements Lecture Notes PDF
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Corvinus University
2024
CORVINUS UNIVERSITY
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These lecture notes cover social movements, their types, motivation, stages of development, and the formation of social movements. The document includes discussions on mobilization structures, opportunity structures, and framing processes. It also touches upon new social movements and their characteristics, as well as the distinction between collective and connective action.
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4 December 2024 Social movements 1 4 December 2024 How to think about social movements? A social movement is a particular form of collective behaviour in which the motive to act springs lar...
4 December 2024 Social movements 1 4 December 2024 How to think about social movements? A social movement is a particular form of collective behaviour in which the motive to act springs largely from the attitudes and aspirations of members, typically acting within a loose organizational framework. 2 4 December 2024 Types of social movements Alternative social movement Redemptive social movement Reformative social movement Revolutionary social movement Reactionary movements 3 4 December 2024 Motivation Personal advantage Principled commitment Sense of self-identity Desire to be part of a group Claims making 4 4 December 2024 Stages of social movements Emergence Coalescence Bureaucratization Decline 5 4 December 2024 Formation of movements Mobilizing structures: refer to the mechanisms that enable individuals to organize and engage in collective action, including social structures and tactical repertoires Opportunity structures: refer to conditions in the environment that favor social movement activity, and include factors such as the relative accessibility of the political system, the stable or fragmented alignments among elites, the presences of elite allies, and the state’s capacity and propensity for repression Framing processes: are strategic attempts to craft, disseminate, and contest the language and narratives used to describe a movement. The objective of this process is to justify activists’ claims and motivate action using culturally shared beliefs and understandings. 6 4 December 2024 Mobilizing structures Participation level Contentious activity Organizational issues 7 4 December 2024 Opportunity structures The relative accessibility of the political system, The stability or fragmentation of alignments among elites, The presence of elite allies, The state’s capacity and propensity for repression. 8 4 December 2024 Framing processes Ability to bypass the mass media Flexible dissemination strategies New channels 9 4 December 2024 New social movements Their capacity to attract the young, better-educated and relatively affluent Their generally postmaterial orientation Their commitment to new forms of political activism, sometimes called the ‘new politics’. 10 Collective vs connective action Digitalization Individualised frames 11 12
