This Tuesday, I will be making a presentation about the use of Twitter throughout the Iranian Election Protests and the value of Twitter as a tactic to sustain contentious activity. You are welcome to check out my Presentation and come to the Mobile Applications and Social Media Conference (http://mobsoc.org/) on January 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM [...]
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There are various factors that can contribute to social movement involvement, and they are disputed among sociologists. There are multiple classical social theories of social involvement: 1) status inconsistency; 2) cumulative deprivation; 3) relative deprivation; 4) rising expectations; and, 5) isolation. According to the status inconsistency approach, people join d when they experience psychological tensions [...]
The 2009 Iranian election protests used moral, cultural, socio-organizational, human, and material resources in order to sustain the movement. Edwards and McCarth explain that there are various resources that social movements benefit from: 1) moral; 2) cultural; 3) socio-organizational; 4) human; and, 5) material.
Moral resources can provide legitimacy, solidarity support, sympathetic support, and celebrity (125). [...]
Social movement frames are very important to the success of the entire movement. When social movements fail, the whole social movement suffers. Framing efforts must give the relevant audience a problem that they associate with, specify who is responsible, and then motivate the audience to act (199). If the audience is not motivated, there will [...]
The political process model was introduced Doug McAdam to explain social movement emergence. He continues with his theory to explain social movement decline due to the same factors of social movement emergence. According to Mc Adam, social movements occur when incentives occur to mobilize collective action. McAdam believes that social movements are a political phenomenon [...]
A social movement can be defined as somewhat sustained, organized collective action which aims to either protect or challenge an authority by using non-institutional tactic. This definition contains multiple characteristics: 1) Social movements must have some degree of sustained action; 2) The collective action must be somewhat organized; 3) Social movements must have the goal [...]
In The Dictator’s Dilemma, Ronald Francisco explains that social movements may face repercussions from repression from dictatorships, but, in the long term, the use of repression causes difficulties for the regime. Dictators have ultimate power over civilians (59). In order to maintain ultimate power, dictators must repress citizens, but repression sometimes leads to backlash (59). [...]
In High-Risk Collective Action: Defending Human Rights in Chle, Uruguay, an Argentina, Mara Loveman starts off by explaining various theoretical approaches to describe high-risk mobilization: rational choice theory, psychological motivation, constructivist approach, resource mobilization, and political opportunity structure (480-485). In the article, the author compares Human Rights Organization (HRO) emergence in the high-risk environments in [...]
In Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Non-democracies, Kurt Schock highlights the importance of nonviolent tactics when opposing non-democracies. Schock describes the outcomes of social movements in non-democracies by using components of both the political process model and the nonviolent action theory. Political process model focuses on various components that lead to a social movement’s [...]
In Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention: Protest Waves in Authoritarian Settings, Paul Almeida explains the cycles of protest in El Salvador by using political process theory’s opportunity and threat models. The first wave of protest, from 1960 to 1972, had increased institutional access through increased institutional access (357). This lead to a non-violent protest wave [...]
