SOC 1105 Lecture 7: Social Conflicts 1105
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Sustained campaigns that make collective claims aimed at the authorities. Strike waves (ex: prison strike against slavery) Sustained challenge to elites (sm generally does) and other opponents by shifting coalitions of collective actors (cid:523)who"s shifting? (cid:524) through a series of public campaigns (long battle- ex: civil rights, came together to move through-speech then riots, etc. ) Challengers are usually at least in part outsiders with respect to the established power structures- lines are blurry, institutional means to exert pressure. Political parties and interest groups are usually insiders with at least some access to government elites. Professionalized and stable (organizations) vs. activist-based and more unstable (no 32122) Social movement vs. counter-movement (major trade unions- a lot of 32122, put money forward to create social forum) Desire for changing elements of social structure and/or reward distribution (social shared opinions and beliefs inequality, wealth distributed) Having shared beliefs, etc. does not necessarily lead to action (