SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Moe Williams, Urban Riots, Social Forces
Document Summary
Non-institutionalized continued, organized effort to bring about or resist social change. Oriented toward longer-term goals with supporting set of beliefs and opinions. Labor movements, including the low-wage worker movements. Communitarian: withdraw from dominant society and create own ideal communities. Religious communities such as the quakers, mennonites, and mormons. Revolutionary: have goals of fundamentally altering system to create a new social order. Rebellion: seek to overthrow existing system but lack plan for new social order. Rebellions against austerity measures in greece, spain, and portugal. Reactionary: goal of restoring earlier social system and accompanying norms, values. Identification with others who are similarly situated. One has social networks that support movements. One has a personal or family history of activism. One has a lack of practical constraints. One has a sense of moral rightness. Many people often avoid the costs of activism (time, energy and resources) yet. The free rider problem still benefit from its success. Rational action, defined goals, bureaucratic organizational structure.
