1. Social Movements and Social Change

2. Reading “Social Change and Social Movements”, chapter 21 in Sociology by Rod Stark (2007) Soc Lexicon: Final Deadline THIS FRIDAY!

3. Outline: Social Movements and Collective Action What is Social Change? Collective action/social movements Irrational and Rational behavior Prisoner’s dilemma models Collective Goods and their provision leadership Production Functions Political Opportunity “New” Social Movements Effect of ECTs on social change

4. Organized Deviance/Social Change How do individuals get together to cause or prevent social change? To what degree are people able to shape history? Some say we are totally the creation of society “history is our destiny” Others say we have considerable freedom to make our own history “free will”

5. Major Examples of Effective Social Movements in the US Settlements for Religious Freedom (early colonists) Abolitionism Prohibition Labor Movement Civil Rights Women’s Rights Anti-War movement Gay rights/AIDS activism Anti-globalization

6. Major Approaches to Social Movements Collective behavior approach Emphasizes outbursts of activity as response to grievances Resource Mobilization approach Assumes largely constant grievances Focuses on Organization Leadership differential access to resources

7. Collective Behavior Riots, panics, mobs, and other sorts of seemingly irrational behavior Triggered by values, grievances (complaints, worries, fears) What are your grievances?

8. Women’s Food Riot, 1940s College Students Sit-in Looting during a blackout The Poor People’s March on Washington

9. The ‘j-curve’ of grievances Hopes for change Actual changes Unmet expectations = Crisis Time