SOCIOL 4DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Movement
7 Jan 2019
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Expectation for participation: come prepared with summary of the reading and discussion questions every week. Functionalist: why social movements develop, why they continue to exist and what social purposes they serve. This approach is not of the instructor"s interest. Conflict theorist: what inherent conflicts shape social movement action, what power dynamics are shaping the movement itself. This will be focused on for this course. Symbolic: what meaning do individuals attach to the movement and their participants what drive the decision making regarding tactics. Group brainstorm definition: groups of people coming together collective reaction to an societal issues/concerns/experience with the intention to enact social change. Instructor definition: an organized group seeking to affect social change. Structural sphere: how ppl are organized, networks. Ideational interpretive sphere: ideological logic that push the movement forward. Performative sphere: how they engage or act on the movement to resist the status quo.
