Social Movements Foundations of Collective Action?

What is a Social Movement?

What is a Social Movement? …Collectivities acting with organizational coherence outside institutional channels with the aim of challenging, resisting or overturning such systems. Snow / Soule, 2011: 6 …an organized effort to change laws, policies, or practices by people without power to make change through conventional channels. Francesca Polleta …an effort by individual / group actors to confront a perceived injustice by mobilizing political, economic, and cultural power collectively in order to remedy the injustice and chanage the values of society. Marshall Ganz …an organized effort to redefine society’s cultural values in order to promote change. Touraine, 2002: 90

What is Necessary for Collective Action?

What is Necessary for Collective Action? Injustice Trigger that amplifies Injustice. Claim (Story) that explains why is it necessary to correct Injustice, and seeks to attract people to the cause by projecting a vision of something better. Communications Infrastructure that spreads the story about Injustice, the Trigger, and the Claim. Repertoires (practices) that challenge structures of power that elicit consent.