SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Occupy Movement, Visible Minority, Environmentalism
4 Apr 2017
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Visible minority protection (ethnicity; religion; gender; sexuality) Backlash movements: real women, victims rights, canadian tax payers, fundamentalist religions, men"s rights, environmentalism, students. Target: state and corporate power (left and right) Change is linked to objective and subjective elements: material conditions of class structure. Poverty, global corporate power: human actions: how we respond to conditions. Examples: occupy movement, idle no more. Collective not individual action: private trouble to public issues. Means to change via social power: economic and political power, ideological and coercive power. Dialectic of control and change: change is continuous but at variable rates, is driven by conflict not idealism change is only likely to occur in right context: level of knowledge, motivating conditions (suicide bombings; infectious diseases; school shootings) Growing political and economic instability: hyper-growth of profit, terrorism, working age under and unemployment. We have reached the limits of growth: environmental impact of growth. Homelessness as objective and subjective: no address, no access to resources, powerless and vulnerable.
