SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Asiatic Exclusion League, Collective Action, Poverty Threshold
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Recall: how to spark a riot largest pulp & paper mills toxic fumes (sulphur dioxide) & student"s attempts to take action and protest which backfires. The study of collective action and social movements: Social conditions leading to mobs, riots, and other types of non-routine collective action ppl act in unions to bring about or resist social, political, and economic chance. Some collective actions are routine & o/s are non-routine. Ex: madd & workers forming a union. Until early 70"s believed ppl lose their individuality and capacity for reason in wild mobs: 2. Conditions underlying the formation of social movements enduring, bureaucratically organized attempts to change or resist change to part or all of the social order by petitioning, striking, demonstrating, establishing lobbies, unions, and political parties. Concerns the distribution of power in society and framing of political issues in ways that appeal to many ppl: 3.
