SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feminist Movement, Social Inequality, Social Disorganization Theory
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Soc100h1 lec#4 challenging the rules: social movements. Social movements are characterized by organization normally in response to inequality. Most protests are in response to inequality. In most societies, most of the time, inequalities produce resistance including protest and even rebellion. Merton: adaptation to inequality (recap from last lecture) Strategies of resistance = collective social actions that combat practise of oppression, reduce inequality or reduce harm done by inequality. Rebellion: attempt to imagine a different set of values and create a separate set of opportunities. Violent, goal directed behaviour that is in service of a shared political goal. Violence simply for violence is not terrorism. Political movements are not acts of terrorism, unless they include violence. Early (e. g. medieval) social movements were small and had little ideological basis. Hobsbawn: early types of social movements (e. g. bandits, mafias, city mobs, etc. ) were relatively ineffective: lacked a plan, an ideology, and organizational structure.
