SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Agent Provocateur, Mass Society, Resource Mobilization

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Public opinion: how people think about some issue. Propaganda: simple the presentation of information in attempt to influence people. Media plays a crucial role: far from conducting unbiased reporting, the media are under the control and influence of people who have an agenda to get across. Mass society theory: mass society: impersonal, industrialized highly bureaucratized society, mass society makes people feel isolated, social movements fill a void by offering people a sense of belonging. Moral issues and ideological commitment: some people join bc of moral shock: sense of outrage of finding out what is. Really going on: bc of this ideological commitment they feel like they have, they join. Agent provocateur: agent provocateur: agent of the government or even of a rival social movement whose job is to spy on the leadership and perhaps sabotage the group"s activities. On the success and failure of social movements. Social change: brought about by people organized into social movements.