ABSTRACT
Attribution dynamics of reproduction of emotional stratification operate more in post-industrial societies than in industrial or agrarian systems. Inequalities inevitably generate tensions that, under the right conditions, can lead to collective mobilization by those who have been deprived and pushed to the lower classes. The case especially with attribution dynamics, but any of the other supplementary defence mechanisms listed can change the emotions actually experienced and thereby obscure the actual source of the repressed emotions being transmuted. Even worse, if there is a sudden drop in material conditions relative to expectations, individuals will become highly emotional and, under the right conditions, able to mobilize for conflict. Social movements begin when a subpopulation in a society has grievances against some aspect of the institutional order. In most social movements, these angry persons are the shock troops, but in the society-wide emotional stratification system and their emotions are deflected in directions that do not work in favor of a social movement organization.
