SOCIOL 2JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Population Projection, Social Movement, Collective Action
10 Apr 2020
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Lecture 10 - the futures of identities and inequalities. Individual action becomes effective when individuals are united through collected efforts: collective action: the civil rights movement, women"s movement, the gay. Liberation movement: mobilizing support from different groups. Gender, race, social class, sexual orientation: new social arrangements shape new conceptions of race, class, gender and sexuality. Recent social movement - black lives matter: an international activist movement, originating in the african-american community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. Future demographic reality: multi-ethnic and multi-religious society through immigration and intermarriage. Canada""s population projection: the number of non-christian religions will double (from 9% now to 13-16%), numbers of muslims, hindus and sikhs will rise, over 60% of the immigrants from asian countries (including the middle east). The philippines, india, china, iran, pakistan, syria and south korea: european immigrants will halve, from about 30% now to about 15%.
