SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Resource Mobilization, Cultural Lag, Mass Society
6 Dec 2016
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People join movements to fulfill a psychological need for belonging. Oppressed people seeking rights others already have. Practical constraints or opportunities to help or hinder movement success. Ideologically committed to promote or resist change. Want to go back to some earlier form of social order. Ex: the tea party vs occupy wall street. Ex: second wave feminism vs anti-era movement. Time between change in material culture and change in social norms, values, meanings and laws. New way of communicating on bus through phone rather than the person next to them. Suvellaince what happens when people take out their smartphones and take a video of for example of police officer beating up someone and uploading it on the internet. If we don"t, we can record and share it with as many people that we want to. Social conditions and attitudes characteristic of industrialized/industrializing societies. Focus on production and management of formation. Belief in progress technology and science.
