SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Social Movement Organization, Bungee Jumping, Inner Core

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Urban legends: stories with an ironic twist that sound realistic but are false: their moral serves as a warning, each story is related to social change, calculated to instill guilt and fear. Social movements: consists of large number of people who organize to promote or resist social change, they have strong ideas about what is wrong with the world and how to make things right. Proactive social movement: current condition of society is intolerable, and their goal is to promote social change. Reactive social movement: feel threatened bc some condition of society is changing, and they organize to resit change. Social movement organization: those whose goal is to promote social change develop such organizations. Alternative social movements: seek only to alter some particular behaviors of people. Reformative social movements: seek to reform some specific aspect of society. Redemptive social movements: also target individuals, aim for total change. Transformative social movements: seek to transform the social order itself and to.