SOC 2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert D. Putnam, Mark Granovetter, Social Capital
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Soc 2312 (fall 2019), institutions, the state, social movements. 2: opportunity for agency one of the most significant political moments is the point when events which are normally signified & decoded in a negotiated way begin to be given an oppositional reading. Here the politics of signification" the struggle in discourse. Is joined (hall in s&r, p. 72) Repertoires" & performances": repertoire of collective action tactics & forms of protest at any given moment in time, claim-making performances utilizing repertoires to interact w/ Modular" social movement repertoires: move away from the traditional", localized", repertoires, in favour of ones that can move across locations, & more effective in the changing socio-political context, boycott, mass petition, disciplined marches. Tilly"s definition: tilly emphasizes an historical understanding" of social movements. Oxford: blackwell publishing. , p. 3: remember the danger that one may see social movements everywhere"!