injustice frame

(noun)

An injustice frame is a collection of ideas and symbols that illustrate both how significant the problem the movement is concerned with is as well as what the movement can do to alleviate it.

Related Terms

Examples of injustice frame in the following topics:

  • Sources of Social Change

    • Culture theory brings this notion of injustice to the forefront of movement creation, arguing that in order for social movements to successfully mobilize individuals, they must develop an injustice frame.
    • An injustice frame is a collection of ideas and symbols that illustrates how significant the problem is and what the movement can do to alleviate it.
    • In emphasizing the injustice frame, culture theory also addresses the free-rider problem.
    • Culture theory argues that, in conjunction with social networks being an important contact tool, the injustice frame will provide the motivation for people to contribute to the movement.
    • Diagnostic frame: the movement organization frames the problem—what they are critiquing

  • Social Movement Theories

    • Culture theory brings this sense of injustice to the forefront of movement creation by arguing that, in order for social movements to successfully mobilize individuals, they must develop an injustice frame.
    • An injustice frame is a collection of ideas and symbols that illustrate both how significant the problem is as well as what the movement can do to alleviate it,
    • In emphasizing the injustice frame, culture theory also addresses the free-rider problem.
    • Culture theory argues that, in conjunction with social networks being an important contact tool, the injustice frame will provide the motivation for people to contribute to the movement.
    • Prognostic frame: the movement organization frames what is the desirable solution to the problem

  • Notes

  • The Law as an Instrument of Oppression

    • Injustice refers to the absence of justice.

  • Ethnic Groups

    • While it was intended as a shift away from the racial injustices of America's past often associated with the historical views of the "Black" race, it largely became a simple replacement for the terms Black, Colored, Negro and similar terms, referring to any individual of dark skin color regardless of geographical descent.

  • African Americans as a Political Force

    • On financial issues, they are in line with Democrats, generally supporting a more progressive tax structure to provide more services and reduce injustice and as well as more government spending on social services.

  • External Sources of Social Change

    • The insurgent consciousness is the collective sense of injustice that movement members (or potential movement members) feel and serves as the motivation for movement organization.

  • Reference Groups

    • Reference groups become the individual's frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experiences, perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self.
    • Reference groups act as a frame of reference to which people always refer to evaluate their achievements, their role performance, aspirations and ambitions.
    • Reference groups become the individual's frame of reference and source for ordering his or her experiences, perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self.

  • Social Change

    • Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.

  • Crowds

    • ., being trapped in a burning theater) or a rational sense of injustice (e.g., the Cincinnati race riots).