SOCI 1002 Lecture 2: Lecture 2.docx
3 May 2012
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Social movements: a force to change the world. Worker"s rights movement (work conditions, child labour, minimum wage) (late 19th century) Massive change that was one of the first the effect everyone from there on. Good example of movement that has many lives, started out with voting them moved forward to others. Civil rights movement (1960"s) - march on washing in 1963. Collective behaviour is a voluntary often spontaneous activity that is engaged in by a large number of people and typically violates dominant group norms and values. Some collective actions are routine (where large groups meet at a particular place, where there are activities all the time) and non-routine (something not so planned, not always on the same day same spot). Routine collective actions tend to be nonviolent and follow established patterns of behaviour in bureaucratic social structures. Non-routine collective action tends to be short-lived and sometime violent (mob, riot, panic). Most non-routine collective action requires social organization.
