POL346Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Resource Mobilization, Manuel Castells, Political Opportunity
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Urban social movements: cities as sites of protest, demonstrations, demands for reform. Social movements: collective action to create changes in power relations at the urban and societal levels (manuel castells, popular organizing and direct political participation, grassroots citizens initiatives, ethnic self-help organizations, community based developments, political advocacy. 3 theoretical approaches to understanding social movements: resource mobilization theory, political opportunity structure theory, framing theory. Framing theory: attaching meaning to the issue and actions, collective action frames: used to produce and maintain the meaning of the situation to mobilize, tells you what to do about the issue, diagnostic framing. What we should do about it: example: problem- crime, diagnostic framing 1: crime is due to a breakdown of the community. Witnessing crime induces fear and withdrawal: prognostic framing 1: residents encouraged to develop alliances, community-based programs, diagnostic framing 2: crime is the consequence of blocked opportunities. Because our kids don"t have enough jobs.
