POLSCI 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sidney Tarrow, Bureaucracy, Reproductive Rights
10 Sep 2014
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Social movements: castells (p. 34 of smith): purposive collective action whose outcome, in victory as in defeat, transforms the values and institutions of society . Benefit of this argument; recognizes that win or lose, societies values and institutions will change and it is open. Effects on institutions and practices, incremental reforms, people mobilize or responses from the state. Smith discusses traits of social movements: challenge boundary between state and society, public and private. Who do you negotiate with if there is no clear or definite leader: smith says we look at social movements and we see them doing abnormal political confrontation and disruption but they act in conventional manners. These could be features but don"t reduce them to being radical: 2nd and 3rd wave of social movements; may look conventional and do politics in. This approach allows us to look at social movements as outsiders and interest groups as insiders.
