SYG-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Social Movement Organization, Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street
FREEDOM SUMMER APPPLICANTS
Social relationship to the project: Preexisting ties between movement participants
List at least persos ho ould e iterested i reeiig iforatio aout your [suer]
atiities?
25% of applicants listed another prospective volunteer
FREEDOM SUMMER APPPLICANTS: Volunteers versus No shows
Roughly 25% of the applicants did not show up
Those who showed up
Independent by temperament
Independent by virtue of class advantage
Freed form adult responsibilities
Young adults with slightly older age
Immunity from parental control compared to no shows (volunteers were
disproportionately male!)
FREEDOM SUMMER APPPLICANTS: Volunteers versus No shows
Roughly 25% of the applicants did not show up
Was there a big difference between those ho had applied ut didt sho up and those who
actually volunteered in Mississippi?
YES
Biographical availability
Social links to the project
FREEDOM SUMMER APPPLICANTS: Volunteers versus No shows
Why was having social links to the project (organizational affiliation & friends committed to the
cause) so important in influencing showing up and traveling to Mississippi as a movement
volunteer?
Possible negative & positive interpretations
MUN“ON: TRANSITION POINTS
Critiques McAdas oept of biographical availability p.774 – Why?
Offers the oept of Transition points
Chage i idiiduals everyday routines
Change in social networks
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