POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: New Social Movements, Arab Spring, Peace Movement
16 Oct 2015
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Poli 100 - lecture 11 - the citizen: protest. Long history of protest and civil disobedience: ancient greece civil disobedience: plato the apology. Challenges existing laws - higher moral calling. Modern protest: declare publicly, testify": luther protestant reformation (15th c, early modern era: liberal protests (17th-18th c) French and american revolutions rooted in protest as catalyst. Tea party in us, storming of bastille in france: industrial era socialist protests (19th c) Historical context (1960s-1970s: post-cold war world. Increased levels of education, especially post-secondary: new set of values emerged. Post material values: ronald inglehart the silent revolution. Main thesis: since wwii society in undergoing value shift from materialist to post- materialist concerns. Roots of change based on two hypotheses: scarcity hypothesis, socialization hypothesis. New post materialist values: social justice, equality, mass participation, quality of life, environmental concerns: post materialism is political equivalent of maslow"s hierarchy of needs in psychology of an individual.
