Social Movement Analysis

There are two different perspectives that represent the consequences and tactical choices in the world of social movements, those two perspectives are: “resource mobilization” and “political process.” Both of these perspectives tend to have a limited focus and put most of their attention on tactics. This is limiting because they do not focus on their opponents. “Resource mobilization” (RM) and “Political Process” (PP) have big differences between them as well; the biggest difference between these is their beliefs on potential power of the social movements. Barkan has three different reasons for writing this article, the first being; he wants to show the importance of studying tactics of movements involving social movements that are of access
This respectable person was Rosa Parks, once she was arrested they began the bus boycott. Following that year in 1956 the mayor attempted to announce a policy called the “get though” policy and two days later Martin Luther King was arrested. By March of 1956 the bus station had lost over a million dollars because the blacks had boycotted it. In Georgia the first big campaign to desegregate was in 1961 and did not end until 1963. During this time there were over a thousand people arrested and there was little change that was done to the segregation problem. In order to understand all these movements, example the Albany Movement, there has to be some consideration given to the parts that the police, courts and prisons played in it, not just the higher legal systems
It stated in 1964 in July when black men were arrested for trying to register to vote. A judge three days later put out a law that made it so there could not be more than three people at a time in a public gathering. This made it so big groups of people could not meet. This is when the campaign started and by 1965 in the month of February there had been over three thousand arrests due to the marches. Selma is a good example of the method of white control. In Albany and Danville the legalistic method worked. In these SCLC campaigns legal means were also used. This article showed two different aspects of control of the civil rights protest. The first was the white resistance and the second was legalistic means of control. In order to understand the whole idea of the social movements in the South the understanding of the parts that everyone played has to be studied. The paper showed the opportunities the opponents have in the legal tactics involving social