Missing Class

Leondar-Wright, Betsy

doi:10.7591/9780801470714

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“…Betsy Leondar-Wright (2014), a lifelong activist, has applied a cultural (Bourdieusian) perspective on social class to decision-making in social movement groups. She examines those who have remained in the working class or the upper middle class, as well as those who have risen from one into the other and—perhaps most interestingly—those who have voluntarily given up many class advantages for the sake of their (often anarchist) politics.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The concern with formal democratic procedures that seems ubiquitous in most left-leaning groups today comes from the upper middle class, where “speech is a central work activity” (Leondar-Wright, 2014, p. 150). Working class participants, Leondar-Wright finds, often value actions over words, and close personal bonds of trust over ideological correctness.…”

Section: Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But it tends to keep groups small and homogeneous. And if the leader dies, defects, or is discredited, the group disappears (Leondar-Wright, 2014, p. 68). And as Lalich demonstrates, leaders can take advantage of such intense loyalties.…”

Section: Leaders and Other Individuals In Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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During the last 30 years the study of social movements has changed dramatically, under the recognition of how important cultural meanings are to collective action and outcomes. Social movement studies has rediscovered a number of microlevel cultural mechanisms that have enriched our understanding of protest and social movements, bringing some subjective elements to a field that for a generation had been highly structural. These include the collective identities of political players, the dynamics of gender, the role of emotions, strategic choices, and the influence of leaders. In much of this work, sociologists and political scientists in social movement studies have worked in parallel to social psychologists, and there has been insufficient dialogue between the two traditions.

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Section: Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%