CHAPTER 12

Question 1

repertoires

Answer 1

particular forms of protest available to and/or developed by social actors at a specific moment (Tilly, 1986)
n developed in a particular place and shaped by the prevailing sense of justice to which it must appeal
n repertoires evolve over time through exchanges, innovation, trial and error

Question 2

pre-modern repertoire

Answer 2

stoning, screaming, public shaming, beating
n short in duration, local in scope

Question 3

social change

Answer 3

actions aimed to change the status quo or the state of affairs

Question 4

social movements

Answer 4

an organized effort by one or more group in society to promote or resist change through various types of engagement

Question 5

contentious

Answer 5

social movements involve collective making of claims that, if realized, would conflict with another group’s interests

Question 6

politics

Answer 6

governments somehow in the claim making, whether as claimants, objects of claims, allies of the objects, or monitors of the contention
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Question 7

collective action

Answer 7

the mobilization and actions of members of a social movement toward a unifying goal

Question 8

WUNC?

Answer 8

Worthiness: sober demeanor; neat clothing; presence
of dignitaries, and mothers with children

Unity: matching badges, headbands, banners, or costumes; marching in ranks; singing and chanting

Numbers: headcounts, signatures on petitions, messages from constituents, filling streets, retweets, repostings, and numbers of likes

Commitment: braving bad weather; visible participation by the old and disabled; resistance to repression; ostentatious sacrifice, subscription, and/ or benefaction

Question 9

campaign

Answer 9

a sustained, organized public effort making collective claims on target authorities

Question 10

core characteristics

Answer 10

small acts of resistance by small groups under extremely oppressive conditions

Question 11

quiet encroachment:

Answer 11

gradual tiny moves that would not threat the state, the policing and surveillance system, but challenge it and push it back

Question 12

political opportunities

Answer 12

vulnerability or cracks in the system; division, decline in repression, increased political pluralism and disenfranchisement

Question 13

mobilizing structures

Answer 13

providing membership, organization, leadership, and communication

Question 14

modern repertoire

Answer 14

large scale demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, petitions, statements to and in public media, blockades, sit- in, disobedience, radical art

Question 15

modular

Answer 15

easily be transported to many locales & situations

Question 16

revolutionary SOCIAL MOVEMENT

Answer 16

A revolutionary social movement is a type of social movement that seeks to radically change or completely overthrow the existing social, political, or economic system and replace it with a new structure.

Question 17

reformative SOCIAL MOVEMENT

Answer 17

works to enact partial change within larger systems. they focus less on changing the whole
system and instead work to have groups’ rights better represented within it

Question 18

redemptive social MOVEMENT

Answer 18

A redemptive social movement is a type of social movement that seeks to bring about a radical change in the personal lives and beliefs of individuals.

Question 19

alternative social MOVEMENT

Answer 19

aims to change a specific aspect of people’s behaviour
§ the Truth, national antitobacco campaign aimed at stopping people from smoking

Question 20

SLACKTIVISM

Answer 20

minimal involvement in social movement through simplistic actions like clicking a like button on social media to show support