SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elijah Muhammad, Montgomery Improvement Association, Resource Mobilization

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

Document Summary

The civil rights movement has served as a rich empirical base for the analysis of social movement tactics. The widespread use and development of nonviolent direct action tactics is one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movements. From the reading a retrospective on the civil rights movement: political and intellectual. An analysis of the political and intellectual contributions made by the modern civil rights movement. It argues that the civil rights movement was able to overthrow the southern jim. Crow regime because of its successful use of mass nonviolent direct action. Because of its effectiveness and visibility, it served as a model that has been utilized by other movements both domestically and internationally. Prior to the civil rights movement, social movement scholars formulated collective behaviour and related theories to explain social movement phenomena. These theories argued that movements were spontaneous, non-rational, and unstructured.