SOC 100A Lecture 17: April 15th Notes
19 Jul 2016
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Definition: collective, organized attempt to bring about or to resist large scale change by non institutional means, old and new social movements: Old: emancipatory politics: right to vote, to unionize, freedom of speech, movement, focus on the state. New: extending the gains feminism moves from challenging patriarchy to nature of sexuality and sexual orientation, control over biological reproduction, not necessarily focused on the state. Different political responses to inequalities in income and wealth late. 19th/early 20th centuries vs. late 20th/early 21st century: massive strikes in late 19th/ early 20th centuries. Ludlow massacre- colorado national guard killed miners that were in fields after they were evicted from housing. Miners killed 4 guards, very violent confrontation between workers and companies, corporations, big capitalists from. Workers are confronted by private armies of companies, national guard, or state militias: politicians. Roosevelt-economic loyalists, pilagers, campaigning on behalf of the workers. No longer about taxing the rich but cutting welfare benefits.
