SOCIOL 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Shooting Of Michael Brown, Lunch Counter, Radicalization
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The complicated social processes of contentious politics unfold though intricate interactions. Concepts for description: political actors, political identities, contentious performances, and repertoires. Concepts for explanation: sites, conditions, streams of contention, episodes, outcomes, mechanisms, and processes. The central mechanisms of contentious politics are interactive. Mechanism: a delimited class of changes that alter relations among specified sets of elements in identical or closely similar ways over a variety of situations: mechanisms compound into processes. Process: a regular combination and sequence of mechanisms that produce similar (generally more complex and contingent) transformations of those elements: a distinct process involves a different sequence and combination of mechanisms that interactively produce some outcome. Mechanisms and processes can vary greatly in how frequently or rarely they occur. Mechanism/process approach to social scientific explanation vs. other approaches. O(cid:272)ial s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:271)o(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:449)ed f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:271)iolog(cid:455)"s approach: In biology, mechanisms concatenate into small-scale processes such as reproduction or long-term ones such as evolution.
