SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Relative Deprivation, Kitimat, Vandana Shiva
8 May 2016
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Social movements and social change: reformative social movements, transformative social movements, deprivation theory, moral and ideological commitment, environmental racism (reference to northern gateway pipeline, vandana shiva (1981, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 2005) Reformative social movements: seek to reform some specific aspect of society: are more focused, focus on one specific aspect (eg. environment distributing garbage better, focuses on a singular goal. Deprivation theory: people who are deprived of things join social movements with the hope of redressing these imbalances: people who are deprived of things that are thought to be valuable (ex. Money, justice, privilege) will join social movements in hope of changing things: ex. Lots of african americans joined the civil rights movement because they wanted to change society that had deprived them: ex. Mohawk warriors, addressing the taking away of something that belonged to them. 200 years ago the peasants of germany were worse off than.
