Her major areas of interest are organizational theory, social movements, and political sociology. Although social movements differ in size, they are all essentially collective. ),Understanding Southern Social Movements(Abingdon/New York, 2016); Laurence Cox et al., “Social movement thinking beyond the core: theories and research in post-colonial and post-socialist societies”,Interface: a journal for and about social movements9:2 (2017), 1-36; Lisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott,Citizenship and Social Movements: Perspectives from the Global South(London, 2010). The rejection of authoritarianism by NSMs can also be seen in their relationship to the workers’ movement and Marxist theory. This makes non-elites feel more alienated, and therefore more susceptible to extremism.[9]. How social movements matter 10: 97. A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. Kornhauser, W. (1959) Politics of Mass Society. A social movementis a persistent and organized effort involving the mobilization of large numbers of people to work together to either bring about what they believe to be beneficial social change or resist or reverse what they believe to be harmful social change. Defined in this way, social movements might sound similar to special-interest groups, and they do have some things in common. The original debate was later published, with additional contributions, as Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, eds.. Ania Loomba,Colonialism/Postcolonialism. In: The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. Check out using a credit card or bank account with. The New Critical Idiom(London/New York, 2005). In the second view, people are most likely to rebel when a consistently improving situation (especially an improving economy) stops and makes a turn for the worse. What is left after this are powerful elites, massive bureaucracies, and isolated individuals? Resource mobilization theory The view that social movements are a rational response to perceived grievances and that they arise from efforts by social movement leaders to mobilize the resources, especially the time, money, and energy, of aggrieved peoples and to direct them into effective political action. The primary research problem from this perspective is the collective action problem, or why rational individuals would choose to join in collective action if they benefit from its acquisition even if they do not participate. McCarthy and Zald (1977) conceptualize resource mobilization theory as a … Violence and Contention 1. Note: This article is a review of another work, such as a book, film, musical composition, etc. “Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory”, Media, Culture and Society, 28(1): 83-104. Du Bois. 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