chapter 14

Question 1

Proactive social movements

Answer 1

seek to reform existing social arrangements and try out new ways of cooperating and living together

living wage, occupy wall street, marriage equality

Question 2

Reactive social movements

Answer 2

seek to defend traditional values and social arrangements

christian/islamic fundamentalist, property rights

Question 3

charity organization society (COS) movement

Answer 3

developed because private charity organizations became overtaxed by the needs of poor people

focused on individual pathology, character flaws (friendly visitors)

Question 4

settlement house movement

Answer 4

stimulated by same social circumstances as COS

focused on environmental hazards
seocial reform was primary agenda

Question 5

strain theory

Answer 5

social movements develop in response to some form of strain in society, when people’s efforts to cope become collective efforts

Question 6

strain theory is _______ but not ______ to predict social movements

Answer 6

necessary

sufficient

Question 7

what are 3 perspectives that have emerged

Answer 7

political process perspective
mobilizing structures perspective
cultural framing perspective

Question 8

stabillity of political alignments

Answer 8

routine transfer of political power from one group to another

left political regimes spur mobilization of left-wing social movements and vice versa, but also the reverse

Question 9

availability of elite allies

Answer 9

play a variety of supportive roles but may also limit and distort goals

may provide media platforms/resources but also limit or distort goals (Christopher reeve, Michael J. Fox)

Question 10

International relations

Answer 10

more democratic, less authoritarian trend until lately

international relations are affected by and effect social movements

Question 11

formal

Answer 11

resource mobilization theory
coordination through social movement organizations (SMOs)
professional SMOs
Transnational SMOs

Question 12

Informal

Answer 12

network model (everyday ties at grassroots level)
e.g. of china… easier to suppress…control NGOs etc. and monitor grassroots

Question 13

cultural frames

Answer 13

are “metaphors, symbols, and cognitive cues that cast issues in a particular light and suggest possible ways to respond to these cues”… the goal is to legitimate and motivate…