SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Movement, Social Change, Software Development Process
6 Mar 2017
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Social movements are extremely prevalent in contemporary societies. Social movements must endure for some period of time in order to be considered a social movement. Movements are important because they are key agents for bringing about change within societies. Conjures up an image of revolution or major legislative change. This happens but it is comparatively rare. The kinds of changes movements achieve tend to be incremental rather than monumental. Social movements and processes of change and resistance are important from a sociological perspective. Movements can/do problematize the ways in which we live our lives and the societies in which we live. Allow sociologists to gauge the workings of the broader political/power structures of our society. i. e. the political structure of opportunity in a society, the degree of political freedom, how flexible a social system etc. Sociology revolves around questions of stability and change: the problem of order and the problem of transformation.
