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Chapter 11
Social Movement, Social Change, and Technology
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
04/09/2013

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Social Movement
Definition

 

Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society

 

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Relative Deprivation Approach (conditions)
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conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities

 

·       People must  feel as if they have a right to their goals, that they deserve better than what they have

 

·       Disadvantage people  must perceive that they cannot attain their goals through conventional means

 

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Resource Mobilization Approach (and the role of leadership)

Definition

the ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources

 

Leadership must be charismatic, well organized, ongoing, dominate the decision-making

 

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vested interests

Definition

those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change

 

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culture lag

Definition

the period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions

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Luddites

Definition

Rebellious craft workers in 19th century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the Industrial Revolution

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neo-Luddites

Definition

people who are wary of technological innovations and who question the incessant expansion of industrialization

 

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What is a critique of the relative deprivation approach? 

Definition

Increased feelings of deprivation are not always necessary before people are moved to act. Fails to explain why certain feelings of derpication are transformed into social movements while other do not

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Why do certain people join social movements and others do not according to Marx?
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Because there are people who live under false consciousness and do not know that they are being deprived of anything
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·       What has traditionally been the role of women in social movements?

 

Definition

Their efforts are in influencing family values, child rearing, relationships between parents and schools, and spiritual values.

 

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How does the protest movement at Columbia challenge the Relative Deprivation Approach?

Definition

Because the people being deprived were not protesting the students of the College were

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What are consciousness raising

Definition

consciousness raising – give people a cause to fight for that goes with their morals

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What are collective empowerment?
Definition

collective empowerment – The recruitment and commitment of participants in a protest movement may also be affected by a group process

 

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What is polarization?
Definition

polarization – convincing opponents that their side is right and the other side is wrong

 

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What is group decision making?
Definition

group decision making – motivating the continuing commitment of movement participants

 

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