Discussion Post
Group I
• What is the role of daily life in affecting one's likelihood of joining a social movement, even a movement one is sympathetic to?
• Why must social movement organizers take care how they "frame" their arguments and choose their symbols in trying to recruit members?
• How do individual traits and structural conditions interact in recruitment to social movements?
• What do scholars mean by the "free-rider problem"? What would be an example of free riding? How might movements address this problem?
Group II
• What were some of the ways that Osama bin Laden was "modern"? Did these help him to be more effective in recruiting followers? In attaining his goals?
• What are the pathways along which women were recruited to the revolutionary FMLN in El Salvador? What light do these differences shed on the main factors that explain recruitment?
• Who was more likely to join and participate in the Freedom Summer Project and why?
Textbook: Goodwin, Jeff, Jasper, J. M. (2015). The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 3rd Edition, Malden, MA, Wiley Blackwell.
The response must include a reference list. One-inch margins, double-space, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font and APA style of writing and citations.