SOCI 386 Lecture Notes - Participatory Media, Wefs, Erving Goffman
31 Mar 2013
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Sms as just another way of engaging in politics. Stress indigeneous resources of aggreived groups (resources brought by actors at the grassroots level) Mobilization builds on preexisting networks and organizations as well as previous waves. Focuses on political institutional environment of sms- i. e. when government opposes labour, the cost of collective action is higher. Structure of polity will be main factor explaining emergence and decline of sms. Conditions that favour and constrain contentious collective action. Definitions: consistent but not necessarily formal or permanent- dimensions of political environment that provide incentives for collective action by affecting people"s expectations for success or failure. Static dimension: relatively stable- explains tactics: state strength (autonomy with respect to interest groups, state strategy (negotiation vs exclusion, social cleavages (class cleavage) Dynamic dimension- explains emergence and decline of sms: opening/closure of the polity, alignments, elite cohesion, allies, state behaviour, threats (i. e. people joining tuition protests b/c of bill 78, which threatened freedom of association)
