SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Character Assassination, Marcel Mauss, Collective Action
Week 13- resistance, policy and racial inequality
Racism in Canada
• Aboriginal historical relations
• Slavery in Canada
• Rejection of eastern Europeans
• Internment of Japanese
• Internment of Ukrainians, Germans, Austrians and Hungarians in WWII
• KKK flourished in Canada in the 1920s and 30s
Individual vs institutional anti-racism
• Attitudes vs structural determinants of inequality
o See week 4
race and social movements
• Social movements are forms of collective and political actions aimed at effecting change
• Civil rights movement
• Anti-apartheid movement in South Africa
Component of social movements
• Collective action
• An orientation toward change
• A degree of organization
• A degree of temporal continuity
• Non-institutional action
o Protest in streets
o Lobbying
Armand Mauss: stages of social movements
• Incipience stage
o General recognition that there is a problem
• Coalescence stage
o Formation of ad hoc committees
▪ More strategic
o Formal/informal organizations
• Institutionalization
o Official recognition by the state and power elites
o Power elites must give some type of statement
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