Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Union Movement, Resource Mobilization, Social Control

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Kayla Baumgartner

Document Summary

Social relations (the patterned connections we form with others) Social activism (the ways in which we seek to cause social change) We can hide/supress parts of ourselves and pretend to be things were not in ways not possible in face-to-face interaction. People tend to use social media to augment telephone and face-to-face communication not to replace them. Social media tend to increase interaction and build community - but not community in the traditional sense. Finally, social media open up new ways of engaging in social change. People advocate and spread awareness of a wide variety of causes using social media. People also use social media to mobilize others for demonstrations, petitions, meetings, support concerts, and fundraising. The study of collective action and social movements. Collective action occurs when people act in unison to bring about or resist social, political and economic change. Some collective actions are routine and others are non-routine