SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Progressive Stack, Glass Ceiling, Meritocracy
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Idle no more which emerged to advocate for aboriginal injustice and organized itself according to aboriginal principles of decentralized leadership. There was also the bc tent community that sprang up because the community decided to change its name from. Occupy victoria to the people"s assembly of victoria because of the negative connotations of the word occupy for aboriginal members of the group. Horizontal decision making processes, progressive stack and decentralized leadership refer to the different organizational structures these social movements experimented with in rethinking traditional hierarchical structures of organization. Society exists where a number of individuals enter into interaction. There is no such thing as society outside of the interactions between the individuals that compose it. Micro level of analysis: the focus of face to face interaction. How individuals in specific locations are able to interact in a coherent and consistent manner. Meso-level of analysis: the focus shifts to the characteristics of specific networks, groups and organization.