Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory

McCarthy, John; Zald, Mayer N.

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“…They have variously emphasised rational and calculated self-interest (McCarthy & Zald, 1977), socialpsychological factors such as efficacy and strong identification with the group whose grievances the movement addresses (Klandermans, 1984;Snow & Oliver, 1993), participation in social networks from which individuals are recruited (Diani, 2004;McAdam & Paulsen, 1993), the processes of frame alignment (Snow, Rochford, Worden, & Benford, 1986), and family background, class, education, and other elements of political socialisation that support activist engagement (Sherkat & Blocker, 1994). Rather than taking up a position in these longstanding debates over the factors that are most predictive of participation, this paper instead follows a growing number of studies that examine how activists themselves talk about their routes into activism (Lyson, 2014;McGuire, Stewart, & Curtin, 2010;RuizJunco, 2011;Valocchi, 2013).…”

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Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists

Taft

2017

Contemporary Social Science

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Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists

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“…The starting point for the crystallization of this second analytical dimension was resource mobilisation theory. Resource mobilisation is, according to McCarthy andZald (1977: 1216), a process of aggregation of requisite means for collective action. In resource mobilisation theory (RMT) social movement organisations are the lynchpin of collective action due to their capacity to accumulate and convert material and immaterial resources such as money, labour, facilities or legitimacy (1977: 1220) into purposeful collective action.…”

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The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Stop-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Participatory Coordination in Connective Action

Mercea

2014

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Citation: Mercea, D. and Funk, A. (2014). The social media overture of the pan-European Stop-ACTA protest: An empirical examination of participatory coordination in connective action. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, doi: 10.1177/1354856514563663 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. In the current political climate marked by deep economic transformation, social upheaval is fast becoming a preferred avenue for voicing anger and opposition to austerity and the retrenchment of the welfare state (Castells, 2012). Recent instalments of street protests that have swept the European Union from Greece to France and Spain, Bulgaria to the UK have signalled a deep preoccupation of the European citizenry with social justice whilst also underscoring the centrality of horizontal digital media in sparking and fanning protest. Not least, protest has been directed at preserving the existing scope of digital media for unencumbered information and communication, as witnessed in the cross-national mobilisation against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (henceforth ACTA). With this article, we seek to investigate an ostensible process of participatory coordination with Facebook and Twitter, which were both used in the pan-European protests against ACTA. Permanent repository linkThe aim of this study is to conceptualize and evaluate the scope for two modes of coordination it identifies -motivational and resource coordination -by way of a mixedmethod study of data retrieved in the run-up to the last Europe-wide anti-ACTA demonstrations of 9 June 2012.Coordination with social media tools has been principally considered in relation to the accomplishment of collective activities (Bennett and Segerberg, 2012: 749;Bennett et al., 2014). Second, it has been discussed in reference to the formation of participant commitment to collective action (see Garrett, 2006;Juris, 2012; Valenzula, 2013). This article speaks to both interests by assaying the scope for the cooperative rather than organizationally orchestrated development of requisite motivations and resources for collective action through networked communication. Consequently, we set out to delineate and empirically verify the notion of participatory coordination. Below, we begin this work with a brief overview of the Stop ACTA movement followed by a review of the sources informing the research aim and hyponym objectives outlined at the end of the same section. (Bruns and Burgess, 2012;. Both platforms may be viewed as social infrastructures enabling, inter alia, the public display of highly individualized and personalized exchanges (Langlois et al., 2009;Poell, 2014 (2009: 417-19). At the same time, the two services leave distinct imprints on the public communication to which they are applied (Poell, 2014: 719). Twitter hashtags -key words or abbreviations preceded by the hash sign (#) -provide one pertinent illustration of these assertions. Hashtags...

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“…3 De tal modo que o consumo dos bens seja apenas uma pequena parte do processo inteiro de consumo que inclui relações sociais e culturais de classificação e uso dos bens (Douglas & Isherwood, 2009, p. 124). 4 Um dos primeiros a falar, junto com McCarthy (McCarthy & Zald, 1990), em nome da resource mobilization (a teoria da mobilização de recursos).…”

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Santos

2014

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RESUMOO debate a seguir visa a ilustrar o conjunto de estudos e pesquisas que vêm se dedicando a explicar a crescente importância da participação política na esfera do consumo. Em muitos estudos recentes, a politização do consumo é vista como um fator relevante na formação de uma nova consciência de cidadania. Tal politização é frequentemente associada com a participação em movimentos que se organizam para defender os interesses dos consumidores. Seguindo esta linha de raciocínio e usando uma análise comparativa, este trabalho pretende explicitar a conexão entre os principais temas presentes na história dos movimentos de consumidores no Brasil. Como um resultado importante desta análise, destacamos a agenda que orientou os movimentos de consumidores nos anos 1970, a saber, a questão do custo de vida, e o processo de transformação desta agenda, culminando no atual foco da sustentabilidade socioambiental.Palavras-chave: consumo; movimentos de consumidores; ação política. RESUMENEste artículo tiene como objetivo compilar la amplia gama de investigaciones que se ocupam del consumo como una forma de participación política. En muchos estudios recientes, la politización por el consumo es visto como un factor para la formación de una nueva conciencia ciudadana. Esta politización se asocia a menudo con la participación en los movimientos que se organizan para proteger los intereses de los consumidores. Siguiendo esta línea de razonamiento y el uso de un análisis comparativo, el presente trabajo tiene por objeto aclarar la conexión entre los temas principales en la historia del activismo de los consumidores en Brasil. Como resultado de esta revisión, se destacan la agenda que guió a los movimientos de consumidores en la década de 1970, a saber, la cuestión del costo de vida, y el proceso de transformación de este programa que culminó con el enfoque actual de la sostenibilidad ambiental.Palabras clave: consumo; movimientos de consumidores; acción política. ABSTRACTThe following discussion aims to illustrate the range of studies and research that have dedicated themselves to explain the growing importance of political participation in the sphere of consumption. In many recent studies the politicization of consumption is seen as a relevant factor in the formation of a new consciousness of citizenship. Such politicization is often associated with participation in movements that are organized to defend consumers' interests. Following this line of reasoning, using a comparative analysis, this paper aims to clarify the connection between the main themes present in the history of consumer movements in Brazil. As an important result of this analysis, we highlight the agenda that guided the consumer movements in the 1970s, namely the issue of cost of living, and the process of transformation of this agenda until the current focus on social and environmental sustainability.

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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory

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Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists

Teenage girls’ narratives of becoming activists

The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Stop-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Participatory Coordination in Connective Action

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