Chapter One Flashcards

1
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An organized, uninstitutionalized, and large collectivity that emerges to promote or resist societal norms and values, operating primarily through persuasion
encountering opposition

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Social Movement

Includes leaders and spokespersons, members or followers, organizations or coalitions

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d. A protest with a clear hierarchy, charter of its ideology, membership requirements and lists is a

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Social Movement Organization

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3
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Differences between social movement and campaign?

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a. Use numerous campaigns to achieve goals
b. Social movements organized from bottom up with ordinary people with tenuous commitment, while campaigns are highly organized from top down
c. Movement leaders tend to emerge as someone who can articulate the cause, while a campaign leader is selected by the organization, who then selects a staff

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4
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Exist and operate primarily from outside established institutions, and they are populated primarily with ordinary people”

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Uninstitutionalized Collectivity

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5
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society views as illegitimate

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(UC) Out Groups

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6
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a. Institutional groups and leaders are the in-group and are viewed by the public as “legitimate agents for sustaining the social order and tinkering with change when warranted”

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In Groups

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7
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b. Criticized for not using normal channels and denied use of them

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Out Groups

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8
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c. Little reward or punishment power other than personal recognition or exile from the movement

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Out Groups

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9
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d. No assured financial support

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Out Groups

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10
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e. Leaders survive only if they perform tasks well

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Out Groups

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f. Rarely receive media attention, and less rarely receive positive media attention because the media are part of the establishment

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Out Group

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12
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g. Need for media coverage may lead groups to use more extreme and even violent approaches, and the mass media typically cover the more extreme

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Ouuuttt GRouooop

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13
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b. Institutions can stifle mass media outlets by threatening loss of access or opportunities

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In Group

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14
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c. All major mass media are owned by large institutionalized corporations

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IN group

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15
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  1. Broad geographic area, long-term, and large “number of events, organizations, participants, goals strategies, and critical adaptations”
  2. “Pressure groups, religious cults, lobbies, PACs, campaigns, and isolated protests” are smaller in scope in terms of these characteristics
  3. “Unlike campaigns, social movements typically assume national or international scope, sustained effort for decades, select many leaders, create many organizations, conduct continuous membership drives, carry out many campaigns, expand and constrict ideologies, set and alter many goals, and employ a wide variety of strategies”
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Large in Scope

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16
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Types of social movements that oppose change in societal norms and values

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Innovative Revivalist Resistance

17
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i. “Seeks to replace existing norms and values with new ones”
ii. E.g. women’s liberation, civil rights for African Americans, gay liberation, animal rights

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Innovative Social Movement

18
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i. “Seeks to replace existing norms and values with ones from a venerable, idealized past.”
ii. E.g. Native-American, Back to Africa, pro-life, environmental, and Christian evangelical movements

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Revivalist Social Movement

19
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i. “Seeks to block changes in norms and values because it perceives nothing wrong with the status quo” that cannot change over time with “established means and institutions”
ii. E.g. antiwomen’s liberation, anti-civil rights, antigay rights, white supremacy, and pro-choice movements

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Resistance Social Movement

20
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What must a social movement do?

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Raise consciousness of the people by revealing the moral, intellectual and coercive bankruptcy of the targeted institution, its actions and its motives. (3 forms of social movement) encounter opposition in a moral struggle

21
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a gain for one side is a loss for the opposition

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zero sum game