SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Resource Mobilization, Aids, Relative Deprivation
6 Mar 2014
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Week 11: social movements: women rights movement (right to vote 1919), civil rights movement (1960s), gay. Social movements: social movement: organized activity that encourages or discourages social change, social movements are about an issue, big or small, seeking to encourage or discourage change in regards to this issue. Limited change or radical transformation: typology: classification of types (types of social movements), there are ideal types (types that fit perfectly in the categories) and type-breaking (can argue different/two categories). Stages in social movements: despite many differences that set one social movement apart from another, all unfold in roughly the same way, emergence: social movements are driven by the perception that all is not well. Some such as the civil rights and women"s movements are born of widespread dissatisfaction: coalescence: after emerging, social movement must define itself clearly and develop a strategy for going public .
