Lions and Tigers and Bears:

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Lions and Tigers and Bears

• How social movements are structured, or, some
  typologies of social movements

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Some general and oft-made distinctions between
social movements other types of social pressure
groups
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Interest Group

• Lobbies members of legislative bodies,
  contributes vast sums to political campaigns, and
  runs propaganda campaigns to affect the
  legislative process.
• Main resource votes
• Mode of operation formal political orgs
• Main arena of activity central halls of power
• Main goal economic or policy influence
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Political Party

• Recognized organization of people with similar
  interests and attitudes formally established with
  the aim of achieving legitimate control of
  government and using that power to pursue a
  specific program
• Main resource votes
• Main arena of activism formal political
  processes
• Mode of operation formal party
• Main goal control of govt.

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Guerilla group

• Non-governmental military organization that
  engages in fighting with the goal of bringing
  about political, economic, and/or social change.
• Main resource weapons
• Main arena of activism covert spaces
• Mode of organization cells, armies
• Main goal political social reform
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4 types of social movement What is the main
type of organization that promotes the cause?
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 1. grassroots model relatively loose,
informal, and decentralization structureemphasis
on unruly, radical protest politics, and a
reliance on committed adherents 

• Examples- U.S. Civil Rights Movement,womens
  movements in Europe anti-war movement in the
  1960s

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2. interest-group modelemphasis on influencing
policies (via lobbying, for instance), and a
reliance on formal organization.  

• EXAMPLES  anti-tobacco lobby  Human rights
  movement in the United States

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3. party-oriented modelemphasis on electoral
process, party politics, and a reliance on formal
organization  

• EXAMPLE French environmental movement, 1990s

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4. Guerrilla-oriented model emphasis on armed
contention, usually led by one dominant
organization

• Example Tamil movement, Sri Lanka

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Points to Remember

• 1- Some social movements are a mix of these types
• 2- Social Movement types may vary change over
  time.
• 3-Figuring out why 2 occurs makes for
  fascinating research