SOCI 3110 Lecture Notes - Relative Deprivation, Lunch Counter, Oka Crisis
15 Jun 2014
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A specific social movement is usually composed of many social movement organizations. Usually have coordinating roles in social movements, but do not. Actually employ or direct most of the participants, Holds that the origin of social movements resides in discontent and those who are dissatisfied with present conditions: subjective comparison, relative poverty or when racial, ethnic, sexual, physical differences feel treated unfairly. Crist of relative deprivation: why does sm rarely happen among the poorest people, 2. Relative deprivation is difficult to measure: 3. Theory is less popular now than in the 1960s. Acquisitive panic- a crowd trying to gain something by attempting to take over a territory, building ex: black friday. It focuses too heavily on resources, not enough on movement goals: fails to account for the influence of average people and their role in the movement. Social contagion: developed by gustav lebron -a major precursor of the field, lebron subscribed to the law of mental unity.
