Social Movements

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Charles Tilly and Habermas
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Tilly's 6 components of a Social Movement 1. Conflict 2. Change 3. Mass 4. Campaign 5. Repertoire 6. W.U.N.C Displays
Campaign Sustained, organized; making collective claims on targeted authorities Occurs over time Participants: full-time or part-time
Repertoire Non-violent mass claim-making performances I.e. vigils, public meetings, rallies, petition drives, processions, pamphleteering, public media, associations
W.U.N.C. Displays Characteristics that help legitimize, sustain, and control the movement Worthiness: presence of respected inds, pursue collective-well being Unity: matching costumes, marching in ranks, singing.. Numbers: headcounts, petitions Commitment: braving bad weather, elderly and crippled, resistance to repression
New Social Movement Theory (NSMT) Arose in the past 4 decades (before,class-based) Transforms society in important ways Moral (improving social life)
Capitalism (NSMT) Focus (important effects on NSMs) Focus on post-Fordist/industrial/modern NSMs react to "post-somethings" and are therefore concentrated in countries with a strong capitalist core
"Post-Somethings" (capitalism) Recognize: 1. Diminution of class conflicts 2. Expansion of cultural, consumption, and leisure activities 3. Growth of tertiary sectors 4. New types of social protest
"post" world Promote SMs that confront capitalism Different from SMs that pursuing a specific political goal Focus on broad goals w/o a clear endpoint Very general critiques of capitalism/modernism
Occupy Wall Street (NSM) Not sustainable b/c lack of leadership This is less problematic if NSM (not concrete transformation, but a general critique) Trying to change views
Habermas and SMs Rationalization Western Society divided into System and Lifeworld Modernization promotes rationalization of system and lifeworld
System (Habermas) markets and bureaucracies
Lifeworld (Habermas) meaningful everyday life, normal relations
Lifeworld Rationalization (Habermas) Promotes self-reflexiveness, openness, and freedom however, non-dominant
Systemic Rationalization (Habermas) Dominant (problematic) dominance of markets and bureaucracies Promotes non-reflexive conformity, not critical thinking Traps us in Weber's Iron Cage
NSMs (Habermas) React to Systemic Rationalization to promote lifeworld rationalization Raise consciousness, cause us to question world Thinks NSMs must PURSUE actual change Expand public sphere, civil society, demo
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