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| Question | Answer |
| Tilly's 6 components of a Social Movement | 1. Conflict 2. Change 3. Mass 4. Campaign 5. Repertoire 6. W.U.N.C Displays |
| Campaign | Sustained, organized; making collective claims on targeted authorities Occurs over time Participants: full-time or part-time |
| Repertoire | Non-violent mass claim-making performances I.e. vigils, public meetings, rallies, petition drives, processions, pamphleteering, public media, associations |
| W.U.N.C. Displays | Characteristics that help legitimize, sustain, and control the movement Worthiness: presence of respected inds, pursue collective-well being Unity: matching costumes, marching in ranks, singing.. Numbers: headcounts, petitions Commitment: braving bad weather, elderly and crippled, resistance to repression |
| New Social Movement Theory (NSMT) | Arose in the past 4 decades (before,class-based) Transforms society in important ways Moral (improving social life) |
| Capitalism (NSMT) | Focus (important effects on NSMs) Focus on post-Fordist/industrial/modern NSMs react to "post-somethings" and are therefore concentrated in countries with a strong capitalist core |
| "Post-Somethings" (capitalism) | Recognize: 1. Diminution of class conflicts 2. Expansion of cultural, consumption, and leisure activities 3. Growth of tertiary sectors 4. New types of social protest |
| "post" world | Promote SMs that confront capitalism Different from SMs that pursuing a specific political goal Focus on broad goals w/o a clear endpoint Very general critiques of capitalism/modernism |
| Occupy Wall Street (NSM) | Not sustainable b/c lack of leadership This is less problematic if NSM (not concrete transformation, but a general critique) Trying to change views |
| Habermas and SMs Rationalization | Western Society divided into System and Lifeworld Modernization promotes rationalization of system and lifeworld |
| System (Habermas) | markets and bureaucracies |
| Lifeworld (Habermas) | meaningful everyday life, normal relations |
| Lifeworld Rationalization (Habermas) | Promotes self-reflexiveness, openness, and freedom however, non-dominant |
| Systemic Rationalization (Habermas) | Dominant (problematic) dominance of markets and bureaucracies Promotes non-reflexive conformity, not critical thinking Traps us in Weber's Iron Cage |
| NSMs (Habermas) | React to Systemic Rationalization to promote lifeworld rationalization Raise consciousness, cause us to question world Thinks NSMs must PURSUE actual change Expand public sphere, civil society, demo |
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