POL344H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consciousness Raising, Tree Sitting, Social Science
Document Summary
Staggenborg and ramos, glossary at end of book. Deborah b. balser, the impact of environmental factors on factionalism and schism in social movement organizations, social forces 76:1 (september 1997), 199-228. De fin in g ke y te rm s. Cohesion - the state of being united, cohesive, or bound together. Agendas for change can vary between radical or moderate. Incremental reform is not something a radical social activist would want to endorse. Typically there are organizational vehicles of moderate nature - begins from absence of share values and norms. Clearest evidence of difference between radicals and moderates. Moderate social organization practice: in te re s t g ro u p s (typically moderate streams of social movements) - triangle of hierarchy and dependent on funding for rent, employees (oligarchy) Tree sitting is collective flattened structure rather than oligarchy - hard to operate on a national or international basis - trying to resist hierarchy (german green party)
