SOCY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Collective Action, Essentialism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 225
• Professor: Sachil Singh

Document Summary

What are icts: information and communication technologies, technologies that store, transfer, process and disseminate data, radios, televisions, computers, the internet, landlines, smart phones, ipods etc. Social movement: what is the social, society. Monopoly of violence - shape people"s minds. Social movement: not simply gathering, change, direction and action. A social movement is not: a political movement: aimed at transforming the nature of power within existing structures. So what is a social movement: a social movement is beyond this because its want to change societal ideologies, collective action, transformation of societal values and identify systemic issues. Significance of icts to social movements: shift from mass communication to mass-self communication (castells, cyberspace offers a "place" where communication can take place with less fear of intimidation by police. Significance of icts to social movements: decreased role of state and media, icts and social movements reify the space between the user and technology.