SCS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Slut, Social Movement, Rape Culture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1150
• Professor: Kathleen Rodgers

Document Summary

Introduction to the study of social movements: concepts and definitions. Three perspectives: the contentious politics perspective social movements are . Sustained campaigns of claims making, using repeated performances that advertise that claim, based on organizations, networks, traditions, and solidarities that sustain these activities (tilly and tarrow, 2006: 11). Social movement characteristics: movements are contentious, movements are noninstitutional, government or other authorities are normally the target of the claims- making, movements involve sustained interaction, social movements feature a specialized repertoire", social movements as multi-institutional politics. Social movements can also be seen as collective challenges to systems or structures of authority, including various types of organizations an institutions and also sets of cultural beliefs and practices (snow, 2004: 36). Van dyke et al (2004) examine this question empirically by looking at protests events in the us between 1978 and 1975. Initially had many concrete policy/political goals (voting, discrimination, violence: but also changes in culture, gender roles, contemporary feminist activism: slut walks? .