SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wrongful Death Claim, Arab Spring, Tunisian Revolution

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Protest the act of challenging, resisting, or making demands upon authorities, power holders, and/or cultural beliefs and practices by some individual or group. Social movement a collective, organized, sustained and non-institutional challenge to authorities, power holders, or cultural beliefs and practices. Revolutionary movement a social movement that seeks, at a minimum, to overthrow the government or state. Diverse interest groups that operate outside the government to organize aspects of life. Institutions that oppose the state (e. g. , trade unions, environmental groups) Structural conduciveness (e. g. , communication) permits certain types of collective behaviour. Structural strain creates real or threatened deprivation (real or threatened; starvation) Growth of generalised belief (dissemination, acceptance of threat and solution) Mobilization for action must occur (leadership, structure) Social control may act to prevent collective behaviour ( opposition": police, courts, barriers (these may become sparks" also)) Conscience constituents (little to gain", e. g. , whites supporting black votes) Stresses interactions between social movement actors and the state.