SOC 1105 Chapter Notes -Charivari, Mayer Zald

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

Week 1 lecture 1 and 2: introduction to social movements. Repertoire of collective action: the idea that limited forms of protest are familiar during a given time use: using the repertoire of tactics available, activists engage in claim-making performance in interactions with targets. Repertoires and performance evolve over time through incremental transformation in. Charivari: a traditional form of collective action directed towards individuals who has transgressed community norms, such as a married man who got a single women pregnant. Nineteenth-century abolition movement was one of the first social movements to use boycotting and mass petitioning as tactics. Sustained: in that they consist of multiple campaigns or at least multiple episode of collective action within a single campaign. Interactions: among movement actors, their targets, the public and other relevant actors: the targets are often government authorities, but may also be other types of authorities such as business owners or religious leaders.