ECON 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bumper Sticker, Political Opportunity, Poverty Threshold
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Early grievance based approaches (what they are/their critiques: primary focus was on grievances, relative deprivation, intensity of deprivation in relation to how you were before. Freedom for individuals to express their grievances in public through communication channels and assembling in public: system accessibility. The extent to which a political system and its institutions are open and closed to participation. The inclination to resort to repression, and changes in that inclination. In some cases, a contracting environment could be helpful: easy to identify post-hoc, some instances they can create their own political opportunities, goodwin and jasper. They touch on the fact that political opportunity alone cannot explain why a social movements emerges. They also comment on the fact that the structure is tautological meaning it is redundant, with pos in the definition of a social. Leaves out cultural context which is so important among other things.
