SOCI 2665 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Essentialism, North American Free Trade Agreement, Anti-Globalization Movement
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Charles tilly on the origins of social movement: a form of contentious politics involve collective action on making claims in conflict with the interests of other parties, politics in the sense that established orders are contested and government is involved in some form or another, thus, social movements (from the mid 18th century on, in the west) are sustained campaigns that made collective claims aimed at authorities (tilly & wood), they involve special (purposeful) associations, strategies/frameworks on which the claims are based, and tactics (demonstrations, petitions, public statements, meetings, contentious performances, e. g. demonstrating again torture on the front loan of dick cheney) drawing on the modern social movement repertoire (tilly), tarrow"s definition: social movements are collective challenges, based on common purposes and social solidarities, in sustained interaction with elites, opponents, and authorities , other forms of contentious politics: strikes, uprisings, revolutions, nationalist actions, and so on.
