SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Factory Acts, Spinning Jenny, The Communist Manifesto

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Reading social movement theorists attempt to answer a variety of questions about the growth and impact of movements, which are relevant to activists and policy makers as well as to social scientists . Reference social movements, charles tilly & lesley wood, published in 2009. Other contentious politics exist: nationalism, war, revolution, strikes. Don"t always fall under the term social movements. Sociologists, like historians or anthropologists, analyse contemporary and historical societies (and conflicts) to validate or test their theoretical structures. An essential component is a grasp of the trajectory of modern society. Singular issue of taxation for the city/town, mostly. Local people: no political parties involved, spontaneous. First recorded example of what we would define as a social movement today. Tactics and the repertoire" adapted to these changed circumstances: repertoire: the collective area of a social movement. Can bring in sheep and remove the farmer.