Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Collective Action, New Social Movements, Union Movement
28 Mar 2016
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Collecive acion and social movements chapter 21. The study of collecive acion and social movements. Under what condiions do people act in unison to change, or resist change to society: non-rouine collecive acion which occurs when people act in unison to bring about resist social, poliical and economic change. Rouine collecive acions tend to be nonviolent and usually follow established paterns of behaviour in bureaucraic social structures. Madd lobbies for tougher laws against drunk driving, or campaigns done against aborion. People engage in non-rouine collecive acion, which tends to be short lived and someimes violent. It was widely believed that people who engage in non-rouine collecive acion lose their individuality and capacity for no reason. Much of history of social movements is the history of atempts by underprivileged groups to broaden their member"s ciizenship rights and increase the scope of protest from the local to the naional to the global level. Breakdown theory: a funcionalist approach to collecive acion.
