SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arab Spring, Industrial Revolution, Reproductive Rights
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All societies display social inequality of varying kinds. In future lectures we will look at class inequalities, gender inequalities, racial inequalities. In most societies most of the time, inequalities produce resistance - including protest and social movements. Coordinates the voluntary actions of ordinary non- elite members of society. Challenges the existing social system and promotes alternative goals. Offers a program for changing the distribution of wealth and power. Is a specially organized protest community: transformative movements: aim to change an entire social system, often through revolution (e. g political movement like arab spring, reformative movements: aim to enact partial change within a society. Early (e. g medieval) social movements were small and had little ideological basis: Eric hobsbawm: early types of social movements (e. g, bandits, mafias, city mobs) were relatively ineffective. They lacked a plan, an ideology and organizational structure. Size, persistence, reliance on technology, and elements of planning and organization. The beginnings of modern protest: machine breaking 18th and 19th century.
