SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Occupy Movement, New Social Movements
22 Dec 2017
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Social movements are comprised of non-elite members of society. They tend to have little or no control over major economic, symbolic, political, or military. People form social movements when they voluntarily work together to influence the distribution of social goods. People participate in strikes, boycotts, demonstrations etc. to spread a counter-ideology in attempt to change attitudes, everyday practices, public opinions, policies/procedures of governments and businesses. Pressure groups: an organization that seeks to influence large institutions (a. Interest group: represents the concerns of a specific set of people. social movement is one tpe of pressure group) open. party. movement. A social movement is different from an interest group because its membership is more. A counter-movement, similar to a social movement arises in response to a social. When a social movement fields candidates in elections, the members become a political. Examples of social goods include money, honour, peace, security, citizenship, leisure.
