SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Movement, Collective Behavior, Extreme Measures
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Examples of social movements: worker rights movement, women rights movement, civil rights movement, gay rights movement. Three centuries ago, social movements typically were small, localized, and violent. Preindustrial societies are tightly bound by tradition, making social movements extremely rare. The many subcultures and countercultures found in industrial and post-industrial societies encourage social movements. In north america and europe, significant public issues are likely to give rise to social movements favouring change and to counter movements resisting it: ex: gay rights movement. Can be progressive (promoting new social pattern) or reactionary (countermovement"s to preserve status quo or return to past social patterns: (everyone, total change, revolutionary social movements: most extreme. Sometimes pursuing specific goals, sometimes spinning utopian dreams, these social movements reject the existing social institutions as flawed while promoting radically new alternative. Claims making: the process of trying to convince public and public officials of the importance of joining a social movement to address a particular issue.
