Week 3

Question 1

What does politics historically mean?

Answer 1

“refusal to defer to faith”

• a refusal to leave it up to fate
• English coffee houses (1650’s)

Question 2

What is a social movement?

Answer 2

A network of informal interactions between a plurality of individuals and/or groups, engaged in a political or cultural conflict on the basis of a shared collective identity

Question 3

What is framing?

Answer 3

creating a version of reality that people can get behind.

• construct versions of reality on the basis of their place within a socially organized situation

Question 4

What are collective action frames?

Answer 4

• action-oriented set of beliefs that inspire the activities and campaigns of a social movement organization

Question 5

What is diagnostic framing?

Answer 5

• the source of the problem
• often an injustice frame, delineating good and evil
• identifying who is to blame and who is responsible

Question 6

What is prognostic framing?

Answer 6

• the solution to the problem
• refuting the logic of opponents
• identifying strategies for action

Question 7

What is motivational framing?

Answer 7

• Call to arms
• vocabularies of severity, urgency, efficacy, and propriety.

Question 8

What is empirical credibility?

Answer 8

• not about facts, but whether empirical referents lend themselves to being read as “real” indicators of the diagnostic claims
• not about general believability, but must be believable to a segment of adherents

Question 9

What are the two features of resonance?

Answer 9

Credibility and salience

Question 10

Relative salience

what is centrality?

Answer 10

how essential are the beliefs, values, ideas to the lives of the target audience

Question 11

Relative salience

what is experimental commensurability?

Answer 11

• congruence with everyday experience

Question 12

Relative salience

what is narrative fidelity?

Answer 12

• resonance with dominant assumptions, myths, inherent ideology, cultural resonance

Question 13

What is a diversionary frame?

Answer 13

• change the subject from the actual complaints of their critics.

Question 14

What is a representative anecdote?

Answer 14

(or a story that is represented as though it is exemplary of the central unresolved problem)

• the anecdote must be complex enough to be representative of the subject, but simple enough to reduce the subject matter to an easily understandable form.