SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: New Social Movements, Resource Mobilization, Environmentalism

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

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Chapter 13 - environment & social movements. Thursday, november 26, 2015. Occurs when people act in unison to bring about or resist social, political, and economic change. Resource mobilization, political opportunity, social control (how the state responds to social movements) Framing - how do we frame our message to sell it. Broader goals that effect all humanity. Globalized - global and large scale. Gradual worldwide increase in average surface temperature. Anthropogenic global warming is of interest (human kind) How environmental issues become social problems. Policy- oriented scientists, the environmental movement, the mass media, and respected organizations discover and promote the issues. People connect real- life events to the information learned from these groups. You can"t rely on the market for this crap bc it can cause environmental damage. Pace of change is too slow. Energy saving tech - ex. Learning in grade school to recycle. Subsidize green industry in developing nations.