SUST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indigenous Rights, Ion, Resource Mobilization
22 Nov 2017
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Talks about being part of society and not feeling autonomous. We have the ability of recognizing the machinery. First we need to identify the social machinery that controls us. Second, we need to recognize that we have power to transform or alter that machinery. Government is not the only agent of change. Individuals, groups, communities, corporations also have a role. Def: alternation, modification or transformation of public policy, culture or social institutions over time. How individuals operate within small primary groups (direct connections) to solve problems. Focus on how secondary groups and formal organizations deal with problems. Focus on how large scale institutions can become involved in remedies. Example: federal government providing subsidies for public transit systems. People come together with a common set of values and goals. Conscious, collective, organized attempts to bring about or resist large-scale change in the social order. Most potent forces of social change in our society.
