Social Movement Flashcards
Relative deprivation
When actual satisfaction doesn’t meet expected satisfaction
Resource mobilisation theory
Grievances not enough to spark social movements
-> needs organisation to gain resources: money, labour, mass media, knowledge
Political opportunity theory
Insurgent consciousness
Organisational strength
Political opportunities (increased political pluralism and enfranchisement, decline in repression, division within elites
New social movement
Post-industrial
Shift from material to human well being, rights
Less formal, more fluid
Framing social movement
Condense wider world to specific events
diagnostic framing
Identifying a problem, assign blame
Prognostic framing
Suggest solutions
Motivational framing
Call to arms rationale for action
Frame alignment
Link goals of different movements to join forces, recruitment
Stages of social movement
Emergence
Growth
Routinisation
Success/failure