SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Resource Mobilization, Social Movement Organization, Collective Action
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More/less opportunities to voice grievances within political system. Government more/less willing or able to repress dissent: the political process model identifies three sets of factors believed to be necessary for the development of collective action: A level of organization within the aggrieved population. Must accomplish three core framing tasks to be successful at mobilization: 3. motivational framing: diagnostic framing: involves providing a diagnosis of some event or aspect of life as troublesome and in need of change. Needs to inspire anger, indignation and outrage. Requires a clearly identifiable target for anger and moral outrage. What needs to be done: motivational framing: provides a rationale or a justification for engaging in social movement activity. Needs to show not merely that something can be done, but that it can only be done by acting collectively. In some cases it is the dominant group in society that constructs boundaries.
