SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Robin Hood, Arab Spring, Social Inequality

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Lorne Tepperman

Document Summary

All societies display social inequality of varying kinds. Including class inequalities, gender inequalities, racial inequalities, and global inequalities. In most societies, most of the time, inequalities produce resistance including protest and even rebellion: which gives rise to social movements, rebellion is an adaptation to inequality. Rebellion: open resistance to an established government or ruler; may be violent or nonviolent: merton"s chart (economic inequalities, though not all acts of resistance are responses to economic inequality. Social movement: coordinated the voluntary actions of ordinary, non-elite members of society: offers a program for changing the distribution of wealth and power, creates counter-ideologies that challenge the existing social system and promote alternative goals. Were small and had little ideological basis. They lacked a plan, an ideology, and organizational structure: robin hood. Had no lasting impact: no long term-plan, hard to assimilate people into their group, size, persistence, reliance on technology, and elements of planning and organization.