Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter 11-13: Corporatism, Abortion-Rights Movements, Anti-Abortion Movements
15 May 2020
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Poli sci week 1 readings heywood chapter 11 pgs 244-254, 260-264, and heywood chapter 13 pgs 284-293. Types of groups: communal groups, embedded in the social fabric membership is based on birth, rather than recruitment, ex. tribes, families, castes, and ethnic groups, founded on the basis of heritage and traditional bonds/loyalties. Institutional groups: part of a machinery of government and attempt to exert influence in and through that machinery, enjoy no measure of autonomy/independence, ex. bureaucracies, military, etc. Interests: benefits an individual/group; objective or real : associational groups, formed by people who come together to pursue shared, but limited, goals, ex. usually thought of as interest groups/pressure groups. Pro life vs pro choice abortion, protests about animal cruelty and pollution, etc. Social movements: a particular form of collective behaviour in which the motive to act springs largely from the attitudes and aspirations of members, typically acting in a loose organizational framework.
