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Select a specific statement made by Kahneman and use one of the supplemental readings to help you analyze and explain what Kahneman means. Kahneman says that “We had made up a story from the little we knew … When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions” (217). This is …
What is the problem that Kahneman is identifying? How might it interfere when people try to talk and listen to each other, particularly around highly charged issues? Why might it be helpful when attempting dialogue with others to “remind yourself that they [and you] may be in the grip of an illusion” (220)? The problem …
What can a movement do when its participants have a negative image in the culture at large? How would that apply in the case of feminism? Which of the relationships, social habits, or pathways to power in Duhigg and Andrews does the movement need to activate to change its image? Movements are often unsuccessful when …
Using Gay as an example, answer these questions: Can individuals contribute to social movements while retaining their own definitions of their identity, not the group’s? What happens to the power of the group (its solidarity)? What happens to the individual? Individuals can contribute to social movements while retaining their identity but not publicly. This can …
Explore “198 Methods of Nonviolent Action” and the Beautiful Trouble website (both in Week 3) and choose a tactic. Describe your tactic. Would this tactic promote cultural, disruptive, and/or organizational power? Why or why not? Brad Newsham describes the disruptive tactic he calls the human banner. This essentially involves getting anywhere from a few hundred to …
Write a blog post in which you explore the 3 kinds of power that Andrews proposes as necessary to successful movements. Use a movement you know about or can imagine as an illustration as we did in class with the civil rights movement and the itgetsbetter.org movement. Much like how Duhigg explains that three steps …
