The document discusses concepts related to collective identity formation and social movements. It explores how dissenting identities can develop in "free spaces" like religious institutions that are removed from state control. These identities are expressed through cultural symbols and practices. Boundary-setting rituals in oppositional groups can strengthen internal solidarity. The document also examines how repressive state actions can either quash social movements or increase their legitimacy, and how censorship can turn banned texts into extraordinary ones that take on new significance.
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SOCI201-012Tuesday, September 17, 2019Socialization and Interaction
Culture
· Important questions about culture
· Who decides what is and is not included in our material culture?
· Who decides the values, norms, and sanctions included in a society’s culture?
· Who decides when culture changes?
Key and Peele- “Substitute Teacher”
Nature vs. Nurture
Socialization
· The process of learning a society or social group’s culture, including how to “properly” interact
· Begins in childhood but persists throughout the life course
· Occurs between generations
· E.g., gender socialization
Agents of Socialization
· Individuals or groups that provide socialization into culture
· People: Family, Peers
· Institutions: school, government, religion, workplaces, mass media
· Total institutions
· Resocialization
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
· American sociologist/psychologist
· Children learn how to “take the role of the other” through:
· Imitation
· Play
· Team games
· The “generalized other”
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929)
· American sociologist
· The “Looking-Glass Self”
· We imagine how we appear to other people
· We interpret others’ reactions to us
· We develop a self-concept based on that interpretation
· Zhao (2005) “The Digital Self: Through the Looking Glass of Telecopresent Others”
· How do we develop our self-concept online if others are disembodied?
· “Analyses of the online experience of teenagers have shown that telecopresent others in the online world do constitute a unique looking glass which generates a digital self that is different from the self constructed offline. The digital self has been found to be oriented inward, narrative in nature, retractable, and multiplied” (p. 400)
Symbolic Interactionism
· Society is composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with others
· Herbert Blumer (1900-1987)
· American sociologist
· coined the term “symbolic interactionism” but was heavily influenced by Mead and Cooley
Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011)
· American sociologist
· Ethnomethodology: an analytical method in the social sciences that examines how meaning is created in everyday interaction/communication
· Social breaching experiment: disrupting taken-for-granted knowledge in order to understand the nuances of social life
Berger and Luckmann
· “The Social Construction of Reality” (1966)
· Social constructionism: meaning-making is a social event- things only have meaning because we assign them meaning
Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
· American sociologist
· The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
· Dramaturgical perspective of social interaction
· The (idealized) performance
· Regions- front and back
· The team
· Setting
· Impression management
· Things we “give” vs “give off”
· Role Performance: we all inhabit different statuses, and each of these statuses comes with different roles; these roles become part of what is expected of us during interaction
· Rol.
Similar to From Facebook to Banquets: Identity, Institutions, and Uprisings - Tom Slee (20)
4. Event Micro Macro
Sudden uprising (cascade)
Lack of strong movement
5. Event Micro Macro
Sudden uprising (cascade)
Lack of strong movement
Network technologies
6. Event Micro Macro
Sudden uprising (cascade)
Lack of strong movement
Network technologies
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7. When I was in post-Mubarak Cairo, my hosts kept pointing in
amazement to various street corners where fierce political
discussions were being held and often whispered, before
remembering they could now speak up and adjusting their
voice, “You never saw this. Nobody ever discussed politics
openly, ever.” Then they would pause and add, “Well, except
online, of course. We all discussed politics online.”
(Zeynep Tufekci (2011), MIT Technology Review)
8. Concepts of “submerged networks”, “halfway houses”, “free
spaces”, “havens”, “sequestered social sites”, and “abeyance
structures” describe institutions removed from the physical and
ideological control of those in power, for example the black
church before the civil rights movement and literary circles in
communist Eastern Europe. Such institutions …represent a
“free space” in which people can develop counterhegemonic
ideas and oppositional identities.
(Francesca Polletta and James M. Jasper)
11. Institution High Status Low Status
Approved
Tolerated
12. Institution High Status Low Status
Approved
Tolerated
Forbidden
(Gordon Tilly and Sidney Tarrow (2006))
13.
14. Collective identity: an individual’s cognitive, moral, and
emotional connection with a broader community, category,
practice, or institution.
15. Collective identity: an individual’s cognitive, moral, and
emotional connection with a broader community, category,
practice, or institution.
Expression: Collective identities are expressed in cultural
materials—names, narratives, symbols, verbal styles, rituals,
clothing, and so on.
16. Collective identity: an individual’s cognitive, moral, and
emotional connection with a broader community, category,
practice, or institution.
Expression: Collective identities are expressed in cultural
materials—names, narratives, symbols, verbal styles, rituals,
clothing, and so on.
Function: Boundary-setting rituals and institutions that separate
challengers from those in power can strengthen internal
solidarity.
17. Collective identity: an individual’s cognitive, moral, and
emotional connection with a broader community, category,
practice, or institution.
Expression: Collective identities are expressed in cultural
materials—names, narratives, symbols, verbal styles, rituals,
clothing, and so on.
Function: Boundary-setting rituals and institutions that separate
challengers from those in power can strengthen internal
solidarity.
Action: Collective identities can supply criteria for making
decisions that compete with instrumentally rational ones.
(Francesca Polletta and James M. Jasper (2001) Collective
Identity and Social Movements, Annual Review of Sociology)
18.
19. • Niche society: dissent took place in pockets of private life,
around home, car and allotment.
20. • Niche society: dissent took place in pockets of private life,
around home, car and allotment.
• Youth culture: Clashes between fans and police at banned
concerts.
21. • Niche society: dissent took place in pockets of private life,
around home, car and allotment.
• Youth culture: Clashes between fans and police at banned
concerts.
• “Dissent could only take place in gaps in the system of
social control that dissidents could exploit. In the GDR this
principally meant the churches.”
(Steven Pfaff (2006): Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse
of East Germany)
24. Identity:
• Identities: Status Quo (G) or Oppositional (O)
25. Identity:
• Identities: Status Quo (G) or Oppositional (O)
• Ideal Attributes
26. Identity:
• Identities: Status Quo (G) or Oppositional (O)
• Ideal Attributes
• Norms: Conform (Status Quo) or Dissent (Oppositional)
27. Identity:
• Identities: Status Quo (G) or Oppositional (O)
• Ideal Attributes
• Norms: Conform (Status Quo) or Dissent (Oppositional)
Choices:
28. Identity:
• Identities: Status Quo (G) or Oppositional (O)
• Ideal Attributes
• Norms: Conform (Status Quo) or Dissent (Oppositional)
Choices:
• Adopt an identity: G or O?
29. Identity:
• Identities: Status Quo (G) or Oppositional (O)
• Ideal Attributes
• Norms: Conform (Status Quo) or Dissent (Oppositional)
Choices:
• Adopt an identity: G or O?
• Choose an action: d = 0 or d = 1?
34. An institution I is characterized by:
Status (xI ) Natural membership of the institution. We can say
that the identity of the institution is the optimal
identity of an individual with status xI
35. An institution I is characterized by:
Status (xI ) Natural membership of the institution. We can say
that the identity of the institution is the optimal
identity of an individual with status xI
Breadth (δ) Individuals with status x ∈ [xI − δ, xI + δ] are
members of I
36. An institution I is characterized by:
Status (xI ) Natural membership of the institution. We can say
that the identity of the institution is the optimal
identity of an individual with status xI
Breadth (δ) Individuals with status x ∈ [xI − δ, xI + δ] are
members of I
Membership (m) Cost of membership for individuals whose
identity differs from the identity of the institution
38. [S]ometimes repression inspires more mobilization; and
sometimes it efectively quashes movements or pushes them
underground. Sometimes repressive forces are successful in
characterizing protesters as legitimate targets of repression,
and other times they deligitimize the State and increase the
legitimacy of the social movements.
(Francesca Polletta and James Jasper)
39. The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we
will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law.
They are not in control; we are.
(M. K. Gandhi)
40. Censorship makes every banned text, bad or good, into an
extraordinary text.
(Karl Marx)
43. The government’s dismissive handling of the exiting crisis and
its brutal attacks on peaceful protesters during the fortieth
anniversary …probably activated what might have otherwise
remained despairing, but inert, citizens.
“Wir sind das volk” [was] a thin claim, but an uncomplicated “us
versus them” message, a claim to political identity that could
bridge lines of class, education, neighborhood, and so on.
(Steven Pfaff)
46. • France 1848: Campaign des banquets
• India 1930: Salt march
47. • France 1848: Campaign des banquets
• India 1930: Salt march
• China 1989: Death of Hu Yaobang, Tienanmen Square
48. • France 1848: Campaign des banquets
• India 1930: Salt march
• China 1989: Death of Hu Yaobang, Tienanmen Square
• Egypt 2011: National Police Day, Tahrir Square
49.
50. • Take rich sociological concepts of identity and institutions
seriously, and use them in micro theories
51. • Take rich sociological concepts of identity and institutions
seriously, and use them in micro theories
• Recover cascades, but with a different revelation
52. • Take rich sociological concepts of identity and institutions
seriously, and use them in micro theories
• Recover cascades, but with a different revelation
• Screening institutions promote dissent
53. • Take rich sociological concepts of identity and institutions
seriously, and use them in micro theories
• Recover cascades, but with a different revelation
• Screening institutions promote dissent
• Appropriation of mainstream institutions provokes a crisis
54. • Take rich sociological concepts of identity and institutions
seriously, and use them in micro theories
• Recover cascades, but with a different revelation
• Screening institutions promote dissent
• Appropriation of mainstream institutions provokes a crisis
• Shed some light on the role of social media in promoting
free spaces.