Wie werden Proteste zu Protesten sozialer Bewegungen?

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-155
Author(s):  
Luca Tratschin
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Pragmatics

In diesem Aufsatz argumentiere ich, dass die soziale Zuschreibung von Protesten ein entscheidendes Moment in der sozialen Konstruktion sozialer Bewegungen darstellt. Dieser Aspekt ist in der Literatur nicht ausreichend behandelt worden. Dies zeige ich mittels der Diskussion dreier Traditionen – dem politischen Prozessmodell, der Systemtheorie und der kulturellen Pragmatik – auf: Um dieser geringen Aufmerksamkeit zu begegnen, entwickle ich eine Konzeptualisierung von Zuschreibungsprozessen, die zwei Teilprozesse der Konstruktion von Bewegungsprotesten unterscheidet: Protestofferten und Protestrezeption. Ich diskutiere dieses Konzept an zwei relevanten Kontexten, in denen Proteste gesellschaftlich konstruiert werden: bewegungsbezogene Gegenöffentlichkeiten und massenmediale Öffentlichkeiten. Mein Plädoyer dafür, die kommunikative Konstruktion von Bewegungsprotesten als soziologisches Forschungsthema ernst zu nehmen, mündet in der Entwicklung eines konzeptionellen Rahmens für zukünftige Forschung. In this paper, I argue that the social attribution of protests to social movements is a crucial moment in the social construction of social movements. This issue has not yet been sufficiently addressed in theory and research. I demonstrate this shortcoming by discussing three theoretical frameworks: The political process model, systems theory and cultural pragmatics. In order to address this gap, I develop a conceptualization of attribution processes that distinguishes two sub-processes of the construction of movement protests: protest messages and protest reception. Furthermore, I discuss two relevant contexts in which protests are socially constructed: movement-related counter-public spheres and mass media public spheres. I plead for taking the communicative construction of movement protests as a research topic seriously. To this end, I develop a conceptual framework for future research.

Incorporating the Game of Geocaching in K-12 Classrooms and Teacher Education Programs

2013 ◽  
pp. 79-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Hall ◽  
Lucy Bush
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gps Devices ◽  
K 12

Mobile technology integration in educational settings is becoming an increasingly important topic as information technology continues to improve, prices decrease, and mobile devices proliferate. Geocaching, a high-tech scavenger hunt played with mobile GPS devices, is a significant example of a mobile technology-based activity that can be incorporated into educational practice. The history and implications of geocaching and its technological contributions are explored, while numerous theoretical frameworks for implementing geocaching in educational settings are discussed. Existing research on educational geocaching is presented, and the social effects of this unique mobile technology activity are examined. Pedagogical applications and best practices are detailed across the spectrum of curricular areas—informed, in part, by the personal teaching experiences of the two authors. Ideas for future research regarding geocaching and other forms of mobile technology-based educational practices are developed. Finally, selected texts for additional reading are provided.

scholarly journals Thanks Response Strategies in Cameroon French

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Bernard Mulo Farenkia
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Data Completion ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Cultural Pragmatics

This study is designed to investigate strategies used by Cameroon French speakers to respond to gratitude expressions. Principles from three theoretical frameworks, i.e., cross-cultural pragmatics, the conception of French as a pluricentric language and postcolonial pragmatics were used to guide the study. The study was based on data from 148 French-speaking Cameroonian university students using a Data completion task questionnaire. The analysis focused on the pragmatic functions, realization patterns, and situational distribution of thanks response strategies as well as on supportive acts used to modify thanks responses. The results indicate five groups of thanks response strategies emerging from the corpus and the most common strategies used by the respondents are those intended to mitigate or even negate the magnitude of the favor. The findings also show that thanks response strategies are realized in different ways and that they are distributed differently across the three situations retained for this study. It was also found that thanks responses occur either as single acts or as combinations of many acts. The supportive acts attested in the data are employed to mitigate or intensify thanks responses, and to save or enhance the faces of the speaker and/or the addressee. The limitations of the study’s findings are highlighted, and avenues for future research outlined.

Exploring the Crisis of the Reform Movement in Iran (1997–2005)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-409
Author(s):  
SEYED AMIR NIAKOOEE
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Framing Processes ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

AbstractThe Second Khordad Movement was a democratic social movement in contemporary Iran. Investigation of this movement revealed two images, of flourish and of decline, as the movement was first generally successful until early 2000 and thereafter began to regress from the spring of that year onwards. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive framework in which to examine the reasons behind the movement's failure and regression. To this end, the study utilizes the literature on social movements, especially the political process model, and attempts to explain the initial success and subsequent decline of the movement based on elements such as political opportunity, framing processes, mobilizing structures, and the repertoire of collective action.

Reconsidering social movements in Turkey: The case of the 1968-71 protest cycle

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 63-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emin Alper
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
The Masses

AbstractThe years between 1968 and 1971 in Turkey were unprecedented in terms of rising social protests instigated by students, workers, peasants, teachers and white-collar workers. However, these social movements have received very limited scholarly attention, and the existing literature is marred by many flaws. The scarce literature has mainly provided an economic determinist framework for understanding the massive mobilizations of the period, by stressing the worsening economic conditions of the masses. However, these explanations cannot be verified by data. This article tries to provide an alternative, mainly political explanation for the protest cycle of 1968-71, relying on the “political process” model of social movement studies. It suggests that the change in the power balance of organized groups in politics, which was spearheaded by a prolonged elite conflict between the Kemalist bureaucracy and the political elite of the center-right, provided significant opportunities to under-represented groups to organize and raise their voices.

Social Movements and Corporate Social Responsibility

2019 ◽  
pp. 619-636
Author(s):  
Alwyn Lim
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
International Business ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social

Over the decades, social movements have been central to the emergence and spread of a worldwide corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement. While CSR was once a marginal concern, social movements were effective in bringing CSR issues to the forefront of international business concern, resulting in the institutionalization of many social and environmental principles. This chapter examines five dimensions of the social movements–CSR relationship. First, it outlines the wider sociological and global context in which social movements have risen in response to the growing power of businesses. Second, it highlights notable CSR issue areas in which social movements have been particularly effective. Third, it discusses the various insider and outsider strategies that social movements have employed to impact the CSR movement. Fourth, it enumerates the challenges that social movements face in CSR. Lastly, the chapter discusses some promising areas of future research for scholars interested in the social movements–CSR relationship.

scholarly journals Ideas and Practices of Democracy: the reactualisation of isonomy and isegory within social movements

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (64) ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Cédric Masse
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Qualitative Sociology ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract How is public participation achieved within social movements? Does it fundamentally rely on politico-economic conditions or does it primarily refer to the ideal or discursive sphere? This problem is addressed through a critical synthesis of theories that deal with this issue (resource mobilisation theories, political process model, Jürgen Habermas, Richard Sennett and Alexis de Tocqueville) and, empirically, through the observation and analysis of concrete modalities of public participation within Portuguese social movements (from a “qualitative” sociology or an ethnography of some movements carried out in Lisbon between 2010 and 2012). In this context, as elsewhere, public participation especially rests upon two linked ethical and political axioms: isonomy - the same law for everyone, the economic basis of public participation - and isegory - the same time to speak for everyone, the ideal foundation of public participation. Thus, to understand the how of public participation within social movements, it is necessary to overcome the traditional dichotomy between materialistic theories that stress the economic dimension of public participation and social movements, and idealistic approaches that address the symbolic and cultural aspects.

Activism in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Laura Holgado-Ruiz ◽  
José Ramón Saura ◽  
Beatriz Rodríguez Herráez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Activist Movements ◽  
General Society ◽  
Theory Framework

Social movements have been transformed in the last decade by social networks, where the dynamics of the social protests have evolved and have been structured and viralized through social media. They are no longer just conversations between activists that stay on social platforms. The cyberactivism that takes place on Twitter or Instagram can also play a significant role in general society by influencing government decision making or shaping the relationships between citizens. In this chapter, the authors explore the main activist movements that took place in social media in the last decade: Occupy, BlackLivesMatter, and MeToo. The proposed approach used in this study facilitates the comparison of each movement while focusing on the user-generated content in social media. This study suggests the presence of four major categories to frame the content generated by the activists. The chapter concludes with the identification of three different approaches to the research of a future research agenda that should be considered for the study of the social movements from the UGC theory framework.

scholarly journals The social movement concept under debate: from the sixties to the present day

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Departing from the notion of social movement advanced by the theories of resource mobilization, political process and new social movements, the article aims to trace different analytical paths traversed by the studies on social movements and collective action. In this discussion it’s considered the hypothesis that over the past few decades, as the macro-structural approaches were giving way to contributions more focused on the micro-social processes and features of social movements, the debate around the concept of social movement may have lost the relevance assumed by earlier analysis developed during the 1960s and 1970s.

scholarly journals The Coalition of the Unwilling: Contentious Politics, Political Opportunity Structures, and Challenges for the Contemporary Peace Movement

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Carty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
War On Terrorism ◽  
Bush Doctrine ◽  
Political Opportunity Structures

The Bush Doctrine, which was installed after the 9-11 attacks on the United States under the guise of the war on terrorism, postulated a vision of the United States as the world’s unchallenged superpower and the invasion of Iraq became one of the central fronts of this war. After failing to get approval by the United Nations for the invasion, the Bush Administration’s attempt to assemble a coalition of the willing became critical to the battle for public opinion to back the war. While the administration was able to garner some support, the coalition eventually unravelled and all troops are expected to depart by 2011 in what is perceived by many as a failure of U.S. foreign policy. This article discusses how different strands of social movement theory, including resource mobilization and the political process model, can be combined to examine how the coalition of the unwilling emerged and what effect it had on the failure of the United States to sustain support for the Iraq war. It contributes to the literature on social movements by assessing the ways in which structural- and micro-level mobilization efforts are often interconnected in order to explain both the how and the why of social movements, usually treated separately in much of the extant research.

scholarly journals A Estrutura Intelectual da Identidade Organizacional e a Oportunidade de Estudos em Estratégia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-169
Author(s):  
Fernando Ribeiro Serra ◽  
Fabio Pinotti ◽  
Luiz Camargo Guerrazzi ◽  
June Alisson Westarb Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Seminal Article

Purpose: This article aims to understand the intellectual evolution of Organizational Identity (IO) and the opportunities for future studies in strategic management.Design/methodology/approach: We use bibliometric citation and cocitation techniques to assess the intellectual structure that supports IO studies. From a sample of 587 articles available on the Web of Science database, we identified the 26 referenced articles that support current works.Originality/value: Thirty-five years have passed since the seminal article by Albert and Whetten (1985). Studies on organizational identity have grown significantly since then. In recognition of the importance of the concept and the apparent maturity of the field, it is important to revisit and understand the works that have influenced the current works on organizational identity.Findings: The results indicated that departing from the seminal work mentioned, studies were influenced on organizational identity and strategic change according to three approaches: socially constructed vision; view of the social actor; and institutionalist vision. In addition to these studies, they were also influenced by works related to practices and processes in organizational identification.Theoretical contributions: The study presnts the intellectual structure of the studies on organizational identity, providing an indication of future research.

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