SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Henry David Thoreau, Occupy Wall Street, Sociological Inquiry
15 Apr 2016
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Popular explanations of collective action pre-1970: breakdown theory and critiques of breakdown theory. Collective action: occurs when people act in unison to bring about or resist social, political, and economic change; may be routine or non-routine : ex: unions, black panther movement, occupy wall st movement. Routine collective action is usually non-violent, and follows established patterns of behaviour and bureaucratic social structures. Non-routine collective action is not guided by usual conventions, is often short-lived, and sometimes violent. Social movements: collective attempts to change all or part of the political or social order by means of rioting, petitioning, striking, demonstrating, and establishing pressure groups, unions, and political parties. Civil disobedience: resistance or refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of governments on professed moral grounds; henry david. Thoreau (who wrote an essay on civil disobedience in 1848) believed social change is created by those following their conscience. Brainstorm a list of all the social movements you can think of .
