SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: New Social Movements, Poverty Threshold, Foal

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

When a group"s objectives cannot be achieved within or are blocked by an existing framework. Political and social change may require unorthodox forms of political action/ course. Involves the overthrow of an existing political order by means of mass movement using violent. Collective attempts to further a common interest or secure a common foal through action outside of established institutions. Some social movements are international and use technology to link local campaigns to global institutions. Ie. the arab springs (see last lecture for detail) Argues that revolutions have not occurred because people live in constant poverty or deprivation - they do not tend to rise up in revolution. Social protest and revolution are more likely when peoples conditions begin to improve. Their expectations go up but improvement slows down and they become frustrated. Therefore it isn"t absolute deprivation that leads to revolution but relative deprivation. Tilly asked why particular groups seek revolutionary challenge.