SOCIOL 4DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: New Social Movements, White Nationalism, Trans Woman
4 Mar 2019
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Chapter 2 - theories of social movements and collective action. Chapter 3 - issues in the study of social movements and collective action. Hank johnston - how we understand how social movements are made up. Ideational: fighting for gender equality justice, get on the same page. Start to link authors and concepts to specific people. Marxism used to explain trade union movement aka labour movement. Collective behaviour theories - aka strain and breakdown theories. Social movements emerge out of a breakdown in social life. Crowds, panics, mobs, riots, cults, movement and revolution. Le bon (1895) movement actors are alienated, irrational, and pathological. Collective behavior exists outside of institutional structures (education, economy, political, government) Social movements emerge out of structural breakdown (rapid social change, natural disaster. The chicago school (1920s) - popular in 1920, symbolic interactionism, understanding meaning, devance. How folks come together to understand meaning, how they are organized and activities they are engaged in it.
