SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pride Week (Toronto), Lgbt Social Movements, Extreme Measures
Worker's Rights Movement - minimum wage, working conditions,
child labour
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Women's Rights Movement -right to vote (1919)
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Civil Rights Movement (1960s) - march on Washington,
desegregation
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Gay Rights Movement (1980s) - Toronto Pride Parade , accessing
for equal access to employment / marriage / children
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First mass social movement
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Collective behaviour : voluntary, often spontaneous activity that is
engaged in by a large number of people and typically violates dominant
group norms and values
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Routine collective actions tend to be nonviolent and follow
established patterns of behaviour in bureaucratic social structures
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Non-routine collective action tends to be short-lived and sometimes
violent (mob, riot, panic)
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Some collective actions are "routine" and others are "non-routine"
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Social movements were typically small, localized, and violent
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Growing in size (partly due to increased literacy, modes of
communication, and new densely populated social settings)
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Becoming less violent (size and organization often allowed
movements to become sufficient powerful to get their way
without frequently resorting to extreme measures)
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Be free from persecution when speaking against
state
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18th century struggle for right to free speech,
freedom of religion, and justice before the law
Civil citizenship
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19th / early 20th century struggle for right to vote
and run for office
Political citizenship
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20th century struggle for right to certain level of
economic security and full participation in social life
of country
Social citizenship
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Last third of 20th century struggle to recognize right
of marginal groups to full citizenship and rights of
humanity as a whole
Universal citizenship
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Four stages in efforts to expand rights of citizens
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Growth of the state led to changes in social movements
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Social movement is an organized activity that encourages or
discourages social change
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Social movements are about an issue, big or small, and are seeking
to encourage to discourage change in regards to this issue
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The broader the issue, the bigger the social movement, VS. the
more defined the issue, the small the social movement
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Lasting effects that shape our society
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Social movements are common in the modern world
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Pre-industrial societies that are homogenous, tightly bound by
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Social Movements
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Lecture 2.2: Social Movements
January 18, 2017
12:00 PM
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Worker"s rights movement - minimum wage, working conditions, child labour. Women"s rights movement - right to vote (1919) Civil rights movement (1960s) - march on washington, desegregation. Gay rights movement (1980s) - toronto pride parade , accessing for equal access to employment / marriage / children. Collective behaviour : voluntary, often spontaneous activity that is engaged in by a large number of people and typically violates dominant group norms and values. Some collective actions are routine and others are non-routine Routine collective actions tend to be nonviolent and follow established patterns of behaviour in bureaucratic social structures. Non-routine collective action tends to be short-lived and sometimes violent (mob, riot, panic) Social movements were typically small, localized, and violent. Growth of the state led to changes in social movements. Growing in size (partly due to increased literacy, modes of communication, and new densely populated social settings)
