SOC 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Resource Mobilization, Occupy Movement, Space Frame
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Societies are able to make their future, movements are the people making the societies they want to live in. Our political party system has failed by movements that undermine establishment party. Contain new moral sensibilities; anticipate a new moral shift that could be coming in the future. Marx to tocqueville: claims about when revolutions happen. Can be generalizable claim in which one can start to build a theory. Based on grievances, social pain of various variety. Intuitive; clear that tea party and occupy are responses to the great recession. Marx: conditions of the working class would get so bad that protest is inevitable. Tocqueville: we see the most rebellions after periods of increasing benefits as expectations are beginning to soar but then drop off a bit (relative deprivation) When reality and expectations get wide = rebellion. Marx: the way and economy is structured/ordered determines the protest available to people. Peasant uprisings (weak) against worker uprisings (strong)
