POLI 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: High Culture, False Consciousness
9 Apr 2018
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Social movements: an organized, sustained, self-conscious challenge to existing authorities on behalf of constituencies whose goals are not effectively taken into account by these authorities. Attract dissatisfied outsiders challenging policies and authorities. Loosely organized (compared to political parties/economic interest groups) Individual citizens called to active participation for a limited amount of time only. Left and right-wing parties all have social movements addressing specific interests. Eu vs us: high degree of population density (4xs us) makes environmental issues prevalent in europe. 1970s nuclear power"s environmental impact: disposal of radioactive material, possibility of limits on economic growth and resulting energy consumption, possibility of future generation"s genetic damage. 1980s: publicly reported that europe"s forests would be dead by end of century because of air pollution. Fight for clean air: basic changes in people"s lives necessary to eradicate sources of air pollution, curtail private transportation, increased receptiveness of european leaders to environmental issues, addition of environmental costs of production to products sold.
