SOWK 3206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Douglas & Mcintyre, Participatory Democracy, Elite

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 3206
• Professor: Joan Kuyek

Document Summary

Class 3 - january 23, 2018 - participation and power: framing the discussion. Objective: to understand the importance of the distribution of power to community work. Doing democracy: the map model for organizing social movements. This chapter analyzes the benefits of social activism and how it allows everyday individuals to address critical societal issues. In addition, it looks at the different strategies used by these groups in local, regional, national and international levels. Social movements foster the idea of participatory democracy, which allows for individuals to be involved in the all types of decision making processes. People can take blooming social problems and convert them into important social issues, while pushing for a position on a political agenda. Movements are successful only when movements can convince a majority of individuals in a de(cid:373)o(cid:272)rati(cid:272) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455), that the(cid:455) represe(cid:374)t so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)(cid:859)s positi(cid:448)e (cid:448)alues. Therefore, social movements are non-(cid:448)iole(cid:374)t, follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g ga(cid:374)dhi(cid:859)s teachings described as satyagrha.