[SOC 481] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (16 pages long!)
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A social movement(sm) is a collective, organized, sustained, and non-institutional challenge to authorities power holders, and/or cultural beliefs or practices. Two sides: agreed party --- opposed party (new trend: social media plays huger and huger role in social movement, which deemphasized the importance of leader). Until 1960s, people who studied social movements were frightened by them, comparing them with nazis. Social movement participants were seen as dangerous mobs, irrational, who blindly followed demagogues who sprang up in their midst. Civil rights movement: the beginning of changing perception of social movements. For the first time, elites(particularly the ones in universities and colleges) begain to empathized with the grassroots demands of freedom and basic human rigts. American outside jim crow"s south began to see for the first time the plight and horrible rules of apartheid for southern blacks. Marcur olsen i 1965 wrote a book the logic of collective action that asked the following perplexing question:
