SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Resource Mobilization, Civil Society, Retail Park

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Authorities: people who occupy the command posts of legitimized power structures. Authority: power that is widely viewed as legitimate. Civil citizenship: recognized the right to free speech, freedom of religion, and justice before the law. Civil society: the private (nonstate) sphere if social life. Elite theory: maintains that well-to-do people consistently have more political influence than people who are less well-to-do have and that society is therefore not as democratic as it is often portrayed. Frame alignment: the process by which individual interests, beleifs, and values either become congruent and complementary with the activities, goals, and ideology of a social movement. New social movement: post 1950s movements that attract a disproportionately large number of higher educated people in the social, educational and cultural fields and universalize the struggle for citizenship. Pluralist theory: holds that society has many competing interests and centres of power and that no one interest or power centre predominates in the long run.