SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Flash Mob, Arab Spring, Anti-Globalization Movement
19 Dec 2018
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Are purposeful, organized groups striving to work toward a common. Might be attempting to create change (occupy wall street, arab spring), to resist goal. change (anti-globalization movement), or to provide a political voice to those otherwise disenfranchised (civil rights movements) Social movements influence societal shifts --- sociology looks at these moments through the lense of three perspectives; Functionalist perspective looks at the big picture - might focus on why social movements develop, continue to exist (their purpose) ect. Social movements emerge when there is a dysfunction in the relationship between systems. Functionalists observe that movements must change their goals as initial aims are met or they risk dissolution. The critical perspective focuses on the creation and reproduction of inequality. Likely be interested in how social movements are generated through systematic inequality, and how social change is constant, speedy, and unavoidable. The conflict that this perspective sees as inherent in social relations drives social change.
