SOC-1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Movement, Resource Mobilization, Freedom Riders

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC-1010
• Professor: William Hale

Document Summary

Social movements: a large number of people come together in continued, organized effort to bring about or resist social change, oriented toward longer-term goals with supporting set of beliefs and opinions, traditionally lack access to political power. Social movement organizations--formal organizations that seek social change through non- Social networks support movements: personal or family history of activism. [essentially context must be right; **emphasis on context: resource mobilization theory--focuses on the ability of social movement organizations (smos) to generate money, membership, political support, etc. Stages of social movements: generally evolve through 3 stages, emergence--the social problem being addressed is first identified, coalescence--resources are mobilized and concrete action is taken to address the problem. [movements often die out after the first two stages/before reaching the third stage: routinization--a formal structure develops to promote the cause [difficult to get to the third stage] Social movements and social change: not all social change is produced by social movements.