SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Resource Mobilization, Poverty Threshold, New Social Movements
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The study of collective action and social movements. Occurs when people act in unison to bring about or resist social, political, and economic change. Collective attempts to change all or part of the political or social order by means of rioting, petitioning, striking, demonstrating, and establishing pressure groups, unions, and political parties. Breakdown theory: a functionalist approach to collective action collective action social movements breakdown theory strain absolute deprivation relative deprivation contagion. Suggests that social movements emerge when traditional norms and patterns of social organization are disrupted. Refers to breakdowns in traditional norms that precede collective action. An intolerable gap between the social rewards people feel they deserve and the social rewards they expect to receive. The process by which extreme passions supposedly spread rapidly through a crowd like a contagious disease. Solidarity theory: a conflict approach solidarity theory resource mobilization.
