SOC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Oil Sands, Neoliberalism, Civil Society
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Valid but also need to use secondary sources, peer reviewed articles. Insider are more typical of civil society (but it is fluid). Trying to make change through legal existing procedure. A direct action strategy where social movement brings about the change they want to see themselves. They try to influence decision makers but they do it from the outside. These laws are wrong, we are not going to follow those laws so that we bring attention to them. The representation of outsider tear gas, batons, Framing of the issues to make them appear incoherent. So the problems they bring forth are portrayed as not credible. Not representing police violence at all but representing protestor violence. Shift from cooptive insider strategies to more coercive strategies. Or can coerce them/repress them one way or another. Cooptive strategy goes hand in hand with form of coercion.