POSC 1200U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Thought, New Social Movements, Social Democracy
February 27, 2018
Social Movements as Social Policy
Lecture 5
Civil Society
• Original thought: Exerts power on state and market to change policy
• New thought: Also creates policy and provides services itself
Components of civil society
• Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
o War Child: B proidig aess to eduatio, opportuit, ad justie, War Child
gives children in war-affected communities the chance to reclaim their childhood
ad reak the le of poert ad iolee. It is gloal.
• Community Based Organizations (CBOs)
o Foodshare (GTA): Objective – take a ultifaeted, ioatie, ad log-term
approach to food and hunger and food issues (by) getting involved in diverse
actions: grassroots program delivery, advocacy for social assistance reform, job
creation and training, nutrition education, farmland preservation, and campaigns
for oprehesie food laellig
• Social Movements
Social movements
• Definition: Large informal groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on
specific political or social issues. In other words, they carry out, resist or undo a social
change.
• NGOs, CBOs, Businesses, and even Government can be part of social movements
• Deorati goeret ake spae for “Ms
o Example: freedom of speech
o Freedom of association
• SMs have contested dictatorships often, but it is not part of that governance system as
it is part of democracy
3 types of social movements
• Old “oial oeets O“M
o Based on economic depravation
o Example: the Cuban revolution (1953-1959); the labour movement
• Three itize rights are ofte fought for O“Ms T.H. Marshall, 94
o Civil Rights: basic rights to speech, freedom etc.
o Political Rights: Suffrage
o Social Rights : the right to lie the life of a iilized eig aordig to the
standards preailig i the soiet
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Document Summary
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