Political sociology and social movements - political sociology: beyond social protests and strikes
3 important questions on Political sociology and social movements - political sociology: beyond social protests and strikes
What is the difference between a protest and a strike?
What are the 3 main theories that try to explain why protests happen?
- relative deprivation theory -> people protest if things are relatively bad
- resource-mobilization theory -> people protest if they have the means to do so and are mobilized to do so
What are the 3 main theories that try to explain why people go to strike?
- behavioral economic theory -> not rational -> just because it is not fair how things are going right now
- sociological theory -> rational in the long run -> the long-term balance is important -> labor unions need to have a strike once in a while to show that they still are present and have a membership behind them
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