SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Cultural Analysis
8 Nov 2018
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Relations in networks are about how people interact. In social movement networks people exchange resources, transmit ideas and develop identities. Social networks are seen as locations for cultural formations and are composed of culturally constituted processes of communicative interaction. We should study how the forms are shaped, deployed and reformulated in conversation as the social movement unfolds. By looking at conversational dynamics within a social setting we can understand the formation of social movements. Network analysis can map different relational structures that associated with mobilization. Cultural analysis can document claims which mobilization draws and therefore we can understand the mechanisms of the network structures and cultural forms in response to continous interaction. The changes influence the success or failure of mobilization processes, for example, recruitment, outreach, coordination and alliance formation. Political participation depends on the existence of social networks. Social movements, culture and democratic processes all have an important network that acts as a resource for information.
