Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Civil Society, Main Source, Alter-Globalization
10 Apr 2020
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Sociology 1020 - week 13 : reading notes. How social movements affect political and social structures. Political parties and their leaders rarely ask the most important questions or raise new issues. If we can see why and how people voluntarily cooperate in social movements, we can understand why and how they cooperate in general. Social movements are also a central source of social and political change. Corporations are also a source -- out to make a profit: they invent new techs that change our ways of working and interacting. People react to changes and resist them by forming social movements. Corporations are the main source of technological change, they are rarely a source of change in values or in social arrangements. Big bureaucracies demand economic and political control and stability -- they try to routinize social life in order to prevent the unexpected. Innovation in values and political beliefs often arise from the discussions and efforts of social movements.
