SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: New Social Movements, Retail Park

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Greg Flynn

Document Summary

Authorities: people who occupy the command posts of legitimized power structures. Authority: power that is widely viewed as legitimate. Civil citizenship: recognizes the right to free speech, freedom of religion, and justice before the law. Civil society: the private (nonstate) sphere of social life. Elite theory: maintains that well-to-do people consistently have more political influence than people who are less well-to-do have and that society is therefore not as demo- cratic as it. Frame alignment: process by which individual interests, beliefs, and values either become is often portrayed congruent and complementary with the activities, goals, and ideology of a social movement. New social movements: post-1950s movements that attract a disproportionately large number of highly educated people in the social, educational, and cultural fields and uni- versalize. Pluralist theory: holds that society has many competing interests and centres of power and that the struggle for citizenship no one interest or power centre predominates in the long run.