SOCC04H3 Lecture 3: The Structure of Movements
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Week 3 the structure of movements (jan 23, 2019) Influences on mobilization: large-scale socioeconomic and political changes, opportunities and threats, critical events, pre-existing or emergent organization, leadership, resources, and frames. Individual recruitment and participation: rational choice theory, free rider problem, collective good. Incentives: selective incentives, material incentives, solidary incentives, purposive incentives, when members of an aggrieved group are tied together by structural factors that generate group solidarity, individuals are more likely to participate in group actions. Structural factors: prior contact with a movement member, membership in organizations, history of prior activism, biological availability, structural availability. Core framing task: diagnostic framing, prognostic framing, motivational framing. Frame alignment: social movement leaders use a number of strategies to reach out to people and organizations that might contain members who are sympathetic to the movements cause, frame extension, frame bridging, frame transformation. Frame resonance: the credibility of any framing is a function of, frame consistency, empirical credibility, frame articulators.
