SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: New Social Movements

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Collective action: occurs when people act in union to bring about or resist social, political, and economic change. Social movements: conscious and relatively sustained efforts by organized groups of ordinary people to change some aspect of their society by using extra-institutional means (tactics). A movement is not a single protests event. To organize a protest, a permit must be gotten, Social movements: collective attempts to change all or part of the political or social order by means of rioting, petitioning, striking, demonstrating, and establishing pressure groups, unions, and political parties. Breakdown theory: suggests that social movements emerge when traditional norms and patterns of social organization are disrupted. Strain: breakdowns in traditional norms that precede collective action. Absolute deprivation: a condition of extreme poverty. Relative deprivation: an intolerable gap between the social rewards people feel they deserve and the social rewards they expect to receive. Contagion: process by which extreme passions supposedly spread rapidly through a crowd like a contagious disease.