Becoming Organizers: The Case of the “Youth for Lo-Sheng Sanatorium”(2004-2014)

• Main Authors: Sheng-Han Chang, 張勝涵
• Other Authors: Hwa-Jen Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62555613160535141441

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 社會學研究所 === 104 === This research aimed to get a better knowledge of how organizers run a social movement organization? To be more specific, how do they recruiting, training, and replacing organizers? This research focused on the case of “Youth for Lo-Sheng Sanatorium” (2004-2014), which was one of the most successful newborn social movement organizations in past ten years in Taiwan. Main research discoveries summoned up to four points below. Firstly, “Youth for Lo-Sheng Sanatorium” successfully got connected to an student activist club called“Z Club”(pseudonym) in a university, so they can constantly recruit people from it. Secondly, “Youth for Lo-Sheng Sanatorium” trained beginners to be versatile rather than specialized. All the beginners had to learn to be an organizer by doing different kinds of the organizational work, and they divided the work by taking turns. So, all the beginners would have chances to do master different skills an organizer need to have. Though there were some kind of the organizational work which need a very long time to master, which could not be mastered only through a few time exercise. Thirdly, members of “Youth for Lo-Sheng Sanatorium” mainly withdrew from the organization for six kinds of reasons, which included “burn out”, “career plan”, “divergent doctrines”, “divergent opinions”, “quarrels”, and“felt no place in the organization”, and sometimes they went back after a while, sometimes they never went back, which constituted different trajectories of participation, such as “transfer”, “individual abeyance”, and “disengagement”. Finally, this research tried to argue that “Youth for Lo-Sheng Sanatorium” is the importer carrier of the social movement sector when other established social movement organizations goes quiet when the Democratic Progress Party first time won the presidency. Though the newborn“Youth for Lo-Sheng Sanatorium” lacking experiences, they had successfully developing a new model of running a social movement organization which influenced lots of forthcoming young activists.