SOC 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Homesense, Symbolic Interactionism, Human Cloning
8 Dec 2017
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Professor laura thrasher - ryerson university - fall 2017. Social movement: an organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society. Relative deprivation: the conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities. Resource mobilization: the ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money, political in uence, access to the media, and personnel. New social movements: an organized collective activity that addresses values and social identities, as well as improvements in the quality of life. Evolutionary theory: a theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a de nite direction. Functionalist theory: society tends toward a state of stability or balance, as changes occur in one part of society, adjustments must be made in other parts. If not, society"s equilibrium will be threatened and strains will occur: parsons four processes of social change:
