SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Social Movement Organization, Resource Mobilization, Erving Goffman
Document Summary
Framing processes have come to regarded, alongside resource mobilization and political opportunity processes, as a central dynamic in understanding the character and course of social movements. This work is seek to provide clarification of linkages between framing concepts and other other conceptual and theoretical formulation relevant to social movements, such as schemas and ideology. The purpose of this review is to evaluate this burgeoning literature in terms of two general questions. And second, does this evolving perspective enhance our understanding of social movements, casting analytic light on areas and aspects of the dynamics of social movements that other conceptual schemes or perspectives have glossed over or ignored all together. Meaning work - the struggle over the production of mobilizing and countermobilizaing ideas and meanings. Social movements are viewed as signifying agents actively engaged in the production and maintenance of meaning for constituents, antagonists, and bystanders or observers.
