SOCI 1002 Final: Social Movements, Chapter 1.docx
6 Apr 2015
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Social movements: chapter 1: variety of protest tactics to bring about , enormous social changes, influencing cultural arrangements, public opinion, government policies. At beginning of 20th century, british suffragists, impatient with the failure of their government to give women the vote, protested in. Parliament, marched in the streets, chained themselves, and went on hunger strikes. The origins of the social movement: relatively recent means of organizing for social change, charles tilly, discusses movement" caused by cosse tax in narbonne, france. Subject to noisy demonstrations to humiliate them: new repertoire rose in late 18th century, established 19 th century, cosmopolitan rather than parochial, tactics were modular. 19th century abolition movement, one of first to use these tactics: caused by expansion of nation states spread of capitalism, spread of wage labor, workers gained independence from masters and landowners and were free to engage politically.
