SOSC 111 Lecture Notes - Greenpeace, Information Technology, Environmental Movement
Document Summary
Groups who seek to bring about change in society but operate outside of conventional party politics and the parliamentary system. A network of informal interactions between a plurality of individuals, groups and/or organizations, engaged in a political or cultural conflict, on the basis of shared collective identity . Collective effort and sense of collective identity. Actions id contentious (opposed to interest groups) With globalisation the nature of power and resistance to it has changed. Information technologies allow for rapid communication of troubles. Goal of bringing about fundamental social change from groups that are disempowered. Repertoires of action that include extra-institutional strategies (e. g. protest) Organisationally diverse and durable in time (e. g. environmental movement in contrast to a specific campaign) Challenge the system of relationships in which it is embedded. Affect industrial innovation and shift the direction of a technological field.
