POLS 251 Lecture Notes - Resource Mobilization, Social Movement, William A. Gamson

• School: U of S
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 251
• Professor: David York

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Social movement actors are viewed as rational beings pursuing a goal using protest as a political resource. Feb 4th 2013: difference between then and now, example: social networkers, this particular strand of rmt drew heavily on economics. The idea of a social movement sector was conceived where in free competition with other sectors of society (commercial organizations or orthodox pressure groups), social movements would compete to attract public attention and financial resources. Rm theorists to also recognize that these could be a source of support in their own right: competitive model. 1960s rise in fertile political central: rmt what lead to/sustained, gay liberation, women"s rights, black rights. In terms of movement structure, early rm theorists viewed social movements as entities that are organized from the outset. Internal features of the organization and the formalization of, for example, decision making structures have been examined from a.