SOC 148 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Fatalism, Rodney King, Occupy Movement
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Cb was useful but tended to reduce things to emotions, to venting, to psychologisms. Reduce a whole bunch of people to a collective psychology. Salt of the earth trigger: short fuse, what was it about those conditions that triggered social protest. You need everybody around you; as an individual, that"s democracy; you mobilize opinion. When democracies or any system doesn"t recognize their complaint. Collective action: action taken by a collective for a particular end that"s how most people in the world can make social change; living daily life is waiting for it to be able to live it. Another classic rendering of social protest movements in america, Because poor people are the least capable of mobilizing on their own behalf. Rich people can do it institutionally, not extra-institutionally like poor people have to do. If we learn how poor folks can mobilize, we can learn how a lot of people can mobilize.
