SOCI 3250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Movement Theory, Herbert Blumer, Mass Society
5 Feb 2020
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Social movement (sm) studies: subfield of sociology, multi-disciplinary political scientists, economists, social psychologists, human geographers, collective behavior (cb) important predecessor of modern sm studies (early. 1900s: subfield of us sociology including as its subject matter social movements. & protest, crowds, mobs, crazes, panics, & fashions: reflected upon non-democratic movements (i. e. fascism) . as such cb. Formed understanding of social movements as the irrational expression of shared grievances, arising from deprivation or the alienating conditions of. Conceptual development in social movement studies knowing what to observe and study: timeline [several phases of conceptual development, pre 1970s collective behavior theory (cb, post 1970s resource mobilization theory (rmt), political process. Theory (ppt), european new social movement theory (nsm: 1980-1990 framing & culture, post 2001 contentious politics (cp, conceptual development. New perspective: each dualism can be deconstructed to show how they create general ideas about sm but does share some common ground and assumptions.
