SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anti-Boycott, Radicalization, Resource Mobilization

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Tepperman

Document Summary

Social movement: coordinates the voluntary actions of ordinary, non-elite members of society. Challenges the existing social system and promotes alternative goals, offers a program for distribution of wealth and power, is a specially-organized protest community. Types of social movements: transformative movements, reformative movements, redemptive movements, alternative movements. Aim to change an entire social system, through revolution. Aim the enact partial change within a society. Aim to change individual members of society through personal transformation. Ai(cid:373) to cha(cid:374)ge specific aspect of people s behavior. Resource mobilization theory: movements are similar and are found in all societies at all times. Adequate resources are crucial: availability of tangible and intangible assets, moral or cultural resources, social-organizational resources. Identity based approach: challenging the dominant culture (focus on social rights, not wealth) 3 paths to radicalization: the reborn: seek order and meaning in their lives, the pious: seek attachment and community, the avengers: seek justice.