SOCC04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Public Good, Free Rider Problem, Discourse Analysis
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Repertoire of collective action limited forms of protest forms familiar during a given time. Using the repertoire of tactics, activists engage in: claim-making performances public gatherings who use familiar tactics in making claims on the interests of targets. Charivari traditional form of collective action directed toward people who had disobeyed community norms (e. g. married man getting a single woman pregnant). The guilty party would be subject to a noisy demonstration dedicated to humiliate him or he before everyone else in the community. A shift in repertoires occurs (more large-scale) because of the spread of capitalism and the expansion of nation-states: with the spread of wage labour, workers gained independence from landowners. Social movements a set of beliefs which represents preferences for changing some elements of the social structure and/or reward distribution of a society (mccarthy & zald) Or collective challenges based on common purpose or solidarity in interaction with elites, opponents or authorities (tarrow)
