SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Collective Behavior

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

Collective behaviour - riots, revolutions, rebellions, and populist movements: textbook calls them social movements, express frustration and marginalization. Social movement - is organized and has objectives: riots - protest against authority, undirected, emotional, violent. Opposition to established government or authority: populist movements - move power back to individual voters rather than their representatives, elites or backroom brokers. Madd - trying to make individual change - don"t dri(cid:448)e drunk. In contrast - environmentalists - change individual - recycle, don"t (cid:449)aste: but also change society - how they deal with garbage. Proactive social movement - some aspect of condition in society is intolerable - promote social change. Reactive social movements - contrast to proactive: feelings of being threatened because some aspect/condition in society is changing, resist social change. Social organizations - goal of promoting social change: women"s movement - the social movement, organization that supports them - national action committee.