SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Relative Deprivation, Neil Smelser, Mccarthyism
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Terms & theories - protest movements: lecture 4. A challenge to authorities, power-holders; cultural beliefs and practices or the dominant groups in society. A social movement (sm) is sustained (lasts a while, not just a single outburst). A collective, organized, sustained and no-institutional challenge to authorities, power holders or cultural beliefs and practices. Protest: the act of challenging, resisting or making demands upon authorities, power holders and/or cultural beliefs and practices by some individual or group. Revolutionary movement: a social movement that seeks, at a minimum, to overthrow the government or state. Theory of collective behaviour (neil smelser) (1962: north american influence, classic theory of social movements, aka. Critique of collective behaviour theory: hard to identify, clearly, strains, too much emphasis placed on strain, tautological: Implies that mass society will always have strains of some kind. Approach stresses the importance of resources: leaders, money, skills. Conscience constituents: little to (cid:858)gai(cid:374)(cid:859) (cid:894)e. g. (cid:449)hites suppo(cid:396)ti(cid:374)g (cid:271)la(cid:272)k (cid:448)otes(cid:895)
