Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: New Social Movements, Corporatism, Mass Society
11 Apr 2016
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Political science lecture 15: interest groups and social movements. Interest groups aim to influence, not become, the government. Like parties, interest groups emerged alongside representative government. And the development of modern mass society cleavages (meaning divisions in society): class class divisions & hierarchy, ethnicity different ethnic groups, region. Communal: embedded, not detached, the group you were born in to and are fundamentally bound to in some sense. Institutional groups: parts of government, e. g. if the military were to demand something from the government, they would be an institutional interest group. Associational groups: voluntary, involves shared interests, however, what you get is a complex web of competing interests . Sectional groups: acting to represent and defend the interests of a particular set of individuals. Promotional group: defends a broader value structure. Interest groups target: bureaucracy, legislature, courts, parties, media. Elitist and marxist views reject the pluralist model.
