SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Covenant House, Slow Food
Document Summary
What makes you an individual is your affiliation with multiple group identities. Sharing group affiliation helps develop emotional attachments with each other. Collective associations is the foundation for forming emotional relationships. Larger groups and individual identities help determine the other. The lines between your multiple identities are often ambiguous and poorly defined. Identities can be static or dynamic (ex: changing religion) Collective behavior that is purposeful, organized, and institutionalized; not ritualized. Rituals do not aim to change something about a society, just celebration. Motivated by a social or political aim to be achieved through conflict and action directed at particular opponents, not consensus and compromise. A group of participants that share a commitment to social change. Distinguished by the people whose behavior they seek to change and the extent of the societal change they hope to achieve: alterative social movements. Seek the most limited societal change and often target a narrow group.
