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

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

Resource Mobilization Approach (and the role of leadership)

the ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources

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

vested interests

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

culture lag

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

Luddites

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

neo-Luddites

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

What is a critique of the relative deprivation approach? 

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

·       What has traditionally been the role of women in social movements?

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

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

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

What are consciousness raising

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

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

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

group decision making – motivating the continuing commitment of movement participants