SOCY1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Identity Politics, New Social Movements, Anomie

• School: UQ
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCY1050
• Professor: Stephanie Raymond

Document Summary

Politics: can go beyond the government, governance process for making important decisions. Power: the capacity of controlling others through power relations, never equally distributed, authoritative and coercive, can be a relationship among groups or individuals. Luke(cid:859)s radi(cid:272)al theory of po(cid:449)er have and make own decisions, ability of social actors and groups, ideologi(cid:272)al (cid:858)(cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulatio(cid:374) of desires(cid:859: marxist, feminist, southern. Movements: collective actions acting in union, routine and some non-routine, core example of the process of agency. Reasons: cause seen as inequality, hope for change to occur, recognition, redistribution, social breakdown theory (deprivation, strain & anomie, contagion) Solidarity theory: mobilise resources, more enduring and routine activities, depends on frame alignment (cid:858)ne(cid:449)(cid:859) so(cid:272)ial (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts, new issues, organisational forms, action repertoires, social constituencies, potential for globalisation. Lack of institutionalisation: highlight a problem but do not show solutions, remaining small scale, diluted values as movement grows in influence, not always inclusive or peaceful.