SOC 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: American Temperance Society, American Tract Society, Friendly Society
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Argue that the social movement came into existence in western countries at the end of the 18th century, by 1830 we see varieties of sm everywhere (france, england) Explained by the centralized state and capitalism. Source for wave of movements in the 1800"s. Antebellum are cultural protests happening in the civil sphere. He thinks explanation of most social phenomena can be found in the economic sphere. There was the ideal form and then we witnessed variety. Structures are ideal or symbolic or cultural. The emergence of sustained and interregional mobilizations (late 1820"s) These movements are about sin; in the mind and hearts of activist they felt they were attacking the idea of sin. Sin as cultural schema in christianity, comes with a certain demand. A frame organizes one"s perception of reality; to see a problem and see it as a sin (rather than an illness or feature of character) causes one to organize this problem in a certain way.
