SOC 0832 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: American Civil Liberties Union, Collective Action
22 Jun 2018
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Sexual and Collective Identity
●In the 1970s sodomy laws were used differently than before
○To limit the ability of gay people to raise children
○To justify firing or denying jobs to gay people
○To interfere in the protection of gay people in cases of hate crimes
●What kind of discrimination is this?
●Why were these laws redefined redefined at this time
●Collective action: action by a group of individuals that have a specific goal.
○CA could be sporadic/sustained, contentious/no con., Institutional/ non
●Social Movement: Form of sustained contentious, organized, non institutional form of
collective action against authorities, power holders, etc
●Class and nation main collective identities of the 19th and 20th century
○Working class movement
○Nationalism (links with facism)
●New Collective identities in the 60s and 70s
○Civil rights movement
○Feminist Movement
○Gay movement
○LGBT 1990s
●How are collective identities formed
○Three forms for collective identites (mary benstien)
■A) Identity exists previous to the collective action
●Urban settings. Post WWII underground gay/lesbian groups
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Document Summary
In the 1970s sodomy laws were used differently than before. To limit the ability of gay people to raise children. To justify firing or denying jobs to gay people. To interfere in the protection of gay people in cases of hate crimes. Why were these laws redefined redefined at this time. Collective action: action by a group of individuals that have a specific goal. Ca could be sporadic/sustained, contentious/no con. , institutional/ non. Social movement: form of sustained contentious, organized, non institutional form of collective action against authorities, power holders, etc. Class and nation main collective identities of the 19th and 20th century. New collective identities in the 60s and 70s. Three forms for collective identites (mary benstien) A) identity exists previous to the collective action. Post wwii underground gay/lesbian groups (daughters of bilities, matachine society) C) identity built to recruit constituency and fight establishment.
