SOCI 336- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Once organizations form they act as if organizational survival is the primary goal. Assume that the cost and rewards of involvement can account for individual participation. Strayed completely from rational/irrational discourse and into running protests like a business. The more immoral a protest is, the more resources are required for it to be successful. Allies are usually paid, heads of organizations: the media needs to frame the situation in a way that it is legitimate and relatable. Symbolic interactionism: people need meaning to be attributed to the cause. Injustice means nothing unless we understand what it represents. Interaction between resource availability: the pre-existing organization of preference structures, entrepreneurial attempts to meet preference demand. Different historical circumstances and patterns of existing infrastructures will affect resource mobilization. Lecture 1 johnson & the invention of the masses: september 12. People"s opi(cid:374)io(cid:374)s of group protests are so(cid:272)ially (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted relevant to that time and place, which may become norms.
