Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Direct Democracy, Environmentalism, New Social Movements
19 Jan 2018
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Lecture #12: social movements 1 other third world countries. What are social movements: relationship between state and society, may think of civil rights movement, feminist movement, developments in egypt and. Social movements: purposive collective actions whose outcome, in victory as in defeat, transforms the values and institutions of society these power relations inter. Identity vs. materialism: very interested in identity and less interested in materialism, creating, shaping and changing notions of identity, challenge status quo identities, cultural knowledge transformations. Interest groups are more conventional press conferences, op-eds: social movements do this but also less conventional strategies direct action tactics (chain themselves to trees, protests, marches) Interest groups have a president, board of directs, policy analysists, etc. producing light bulbs, etc. ) Political opportunity structure (pos: most popular and best theory we have of social movements, dimensions of the political environment that provide incentives for collective action emerge because of political conditions/environment that encourage them to engage in action.
