SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Tea Party Movement, Idle No More, Arab Spring
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Way for the public to pursue collective goods at the expense of private interests pollution. Way to expand rights of marginalized race, gender, inequality. In this way, social movements are often a means of expanding democracy. But the kkk in the 1920s led a very popular sm. Like health, medicine, and demography, one of the greatest strength of our department. Professors hall, roychowdhury, rytina, shor, soehl, van den berg study it and offer classes in it. Global inequality & development: political sociology: conclusions. Effect of democracy: democracy also lays the conditions that allow sms to become an effective political strategy. Legitimizes public discussions: elections require public discussion of major issues, social movements continue/expand such discussions. Right to assemble: right of assembly is necessary for campaigning; sms depend on large assemblies. Free speech: democracy promotes free speech; sms benefit from free speech. Numbers: elections magnify and legitimize numeric strength; movements pursue the masses.
