SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mcgraw-Hill Education, Collective Behavior, Symbolic Interactionism
22 Aug 2016
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The result is the social movement. (tarrow 1988:2) Nick crossley making sense of social movements. open university press. Saul d. alinsky rules for radicals 1971: what follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. Machivalli for the haves on how to hold power. Rules for radicals is written for the have-nots on how to take it away. Interpretations of issues and events that inspire and legitimate collective actions: ex. Hundreds of thousands of people protested to bring down dictatorship. Not just a response to something you don"t like in society. What inspires the people to do this: in social history, we"ve seen events in the past few decades a cycle of contention is established in the event to bring up change, a collective identity. Called the classic theory of social movements": the dominant or strongest theory. Often called the stress/breakdown theory : focuses much on stress.
