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Protests are used as political resources by powerless groups. I agree with this concept by the fact that political conflict arises when the available resources in terms of power or social status are unevenly distributed among political groups. In this way, Lipsky, in his research, agrees with Baseball as he argues that the protests create powerless groups that are ready to organize and bat their political opponents by use of mass action that involves public members. Our main argument is that the protests occur as a result of power struggles between political groups and in which the powerless groups organize protests that aim to increase their bargaining power from their opponents who are mostly the ruling party. For instance, according to Micheal Lipsky, he points out that the main reason why Negro groups organize protests in the cities is due to a lack of political resources. The vital political resources addressed in this case include political power and social status. This argument applies to the baseball material for the week because of the following reasons. This argument addresses political conflict, which can be analyzed using the conflict theory of sociology. Focusing on Baseball professional case, the main idea, in this case, is the batting conflict between the two competing teams.
On the other hand, the conflict in Lipsky’s case is well illustrated as he points out that the protests arise as a result of the problem of bargaining, which occurs due to lack of enough political resources (this is a critical problem facing powerless groups). According to Wilson, protest is a mass action or merely a response that aims to address negative inducement in the power bargaining process. Focusing on how protests are induced to public members, its primary goals are aimed at the material reward. In this way, the targeted civic groups are stimulated when the powerless group communicates material gain as the reward to improve protesters’ livelihood that can only be achieved through protests. The powerless group organizing such protests usually use communication media to organize for such demonstrations. Policy pronouncement and how they will be made through protests are part of other stimuli used by powerless groups to win the targeted public group. Hence protests are conducted by powerless groups to display unconditional nature that focuses on obtaining a reward from the political-economic system working within the systems as it aims at creating bargaining power for the powerless group (especially political groups).