SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mohamed Bouazizi, Arab Spring

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

Document Summary

The arab spring (or the arab revolutions) refers to the recent revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the arab world (primarily, but not exclusively islamic) A revolution )from the latin revolution a turn around ) is a significant change that takes place in a relatively short period of time. Different kinds of revolutions: political (ex. American revolution and russian revolution: social (ex. Civil rights movements and internet revolution: economic (ex. Since december 2010 there have been revolutions in tunisia and egypt; a civil war in libya; civil uprising in bahrain, syria, and yemen; major protests in algeria, jordan, morocco, and oman. In this particular social and political context how can we explain the sudden surge in persistent and stiff resistance and demonstrations? : social theorists say that they were taken by surprise (in some degree it is in hindsight) Approach stresses the np of resources: leaders, money, skills seem to be reducible to most twitter and youtube accounts.