CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bombardier Innovia Metro, Group Cohesiveness, Mancur Olson

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Social movement: is a collective, organized, sustained, and noinstitutional challenge to authorities, power holders, or cultural beliefs and practices. Why does social movements emerge: shared grievances about social injustice. People challenge institutional, social, legal, and economics systems. Koo is an internal group overthrows the group that"s in power; it"s internal to state itself. Said you can"t assume that just because the individual members of group share same self-interests doesn"t mean they will act in those same interests. Problem of free riding, not everyone will try. So there has to be some sort of coercion/system of inducement. Public good: military defense can"t separate who gets benefits. Free ride: enjoys benefit without incurring any of the cost. Emerges as a critique of collective action theory. Argues that socially connected individuals are most likely to be mobilizing for collective action. The key determinants of successful collective action are the available resources. Tangible assets: money/ raise funds for protest.