Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Direct Democracy, Todd Gitlin, Social Movement Organization
7 Apr 2016
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Todd gitlin, occupy"s predicament: the moment and the prospects for the movement. the british journal of sociology vol. According to gitlin, the movement married 18th-century constitutional principle enshrining the value of public assembly with 21st-century methods (social media, text messages and the like) for summoning such assembly (p. Interpretation of first amendment and what is communal goal. A lot easier to organize large amounts of people, easy to spread the message, no longer constrained by distance, enables quick updates etc of information regarding movement. Social media = safe haven of free speech. The inner core of the movement was phobic about the risk of being coopted. It didn"t want different policies; it wanted a different way of life; or better, it wanted to be, in its daily functioning, its direct democracy and provision of services, that way of life (p. 8).
