SOC 705 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Satyagraha, International Inequality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 705
• Professor: Terry Roswell

Document Summary

Civil disobedience a type of protest activity, but not all protest activity is civil disobedience civil disobedience: breaking laws in order to prove that they are wrong. Gandhi satyagraha & ahimsa (clinging to truth and not harming) active resistance. The ends do not justify the means. Cannot engage in violence as a means of achieving peace. Martin luther king jr. : letter from birmingham jail. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Negotiate to foster tension that disrupts oppressor. Recognizes we have a legal and moral responsibility to obey just laws and to. Laws can be just in theory but not in application also a legal and moral to disobey unjust ones. An unjust law, is one where the dominant group creates one for a minority, where it is only affects the minority and they have no say in its development, hence not equal.