SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Proxy War, World Politics, Advanced Capitalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Killmurray

Document Summary

Northern ireland - mimicked the civil rights movement, structure. Northern ireland civil rights group formed to protest: Discrimination in workplace, housing allocation, political representation. Market a major turning point in irish politics of the 1960s. With the violent backlash against the crm in the north, and the absence of any real political participation. France had fought in indochine (french forces: 75581 dead, woundedc, 40k captured) 68- turning point for social movements, in a broader sense. Radical opposition as ppl were be ciery constituents. Mobilization of millions of citizens opposed to war. Political aspect pits americans against each other. New left, marxist thought and social activism in academia. Known as cultural marxists- wants students at the deceits in ideology within american campus. Extent of regimes" repression or facilitation on collective claim making - right of assembly as an example. Decisive changes in all of the above.