The social movement is a synthesis of campaign, performance repertoire, and WUNC displays
Evidence
The emergence of the social movement as we know it today epitomizes the new repertoire (Tilly 2004a, chap. 2). As it developed in the West after 1750, the social movement emerged from an innovative, consequential synthesis of three elements: 1. A sustained, organized public effort making collective claims on target authorities; let us call it a campaign. 2. Employment of combinations from among the following forms of political action: marches, rallies, processions, demonstrations, occupations, picket lines, blockades, public meetings, delegations, statements to and in public media, petition drives, letter-writing, pamphleteering, lobbying, and creation of specialized associations, coalitions, or fronts; call the variable ensemble of performances the social-movement repertoire. 3. Participants’ concerted public representations of worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment (WUNC) on the part of themselves and/or their constituencies; call them WUNC displays. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 334
Categorization
- DEFINE: Precise stipulative definition of the social movement as three-element synthesis: campaign, social-movement repertoire, WUNC displays.
- XREF: This is the canonical Tilly definition; connect to reader’s question of whether institutional absorption of campaigns defuses or merely channels claims into WUNC-display form. — connects to: Sustained campaigns, public performances, and WUNC displays jointly define the social movement as distinct — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1164; Changes in demonstration form reflect deeper shifts in social movement politics — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1231; Color-coded protest identities spread across postsocialist regimes as WUNC displays. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1259 (+3 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 334
Broader Connections
- Electoral campaigns, social-movement performances, and WUNC displays fuse in nationalist politics across regimes
#corroborates(0.90) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 417 - Sustained challenge plus WUNC displays defines the social movement form
#corroborates(0.88) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1128 - Democracy plus high capacity generated the social-movement repertoire bundling old performances.
#expands(0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1071