WarmUp : Make a List!

1. WarmUp: Make a List! • What is a social movement? • Make a list of all the social movements you can think of from history.

2. Chapter 17.2 Collective Behavior & Social Movements

3. Collective Behavior Review • Collective Behavior &Social Movements Video

4. Objectives • Describe the types of social movements that exist &explain how they differ. • Identify the stages present in the life cycle of social movements &describe ways in which the existence of social movements can be explained.

5. Social Movements • along-term, conscious effort to promote or prevent social change Prohibition Documentary

6. Types of Social Movements Reactionary, Conservative, Revisionary, Revolutionary

7. Reactionary Movements • main goal is to reverse current social trend or “turn back the clock” example: Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street

8. Conservative Movements • try to protect what they see as society’s prevailing values from change that they consider to be a threat to those values • example:Republican Party within USA

9. Revisionary Movements • goal is to improve or revise some part of society through social change • example:women’s suffrage movement (1820s- 1920) • End Women’s Suffrage?

10. Revolutionary Movements • goal is a total &radical change to the existing social structure • example:French Revolution

11. Life Cycle of Social Movements Agitation, Legitimation, Bureaucratization, Institutionalization

12. Agitation • begins with belief that a problem exists • small group begins to stir up public awareness

13. Legitimation • social movement becomes more respectable as it gains increasing acceptance

14. Bureaucratization • movement develops a ranked structure of authority, official policies &efficient strategies for the future

15. Institutionalization • movement becomes established as a part of society

16. Explaining Social Movements Relative Depravation Theory, Resource Mobilization Theory

17. Relative Deprivation Theory • economic theory that suggests that social movements arise when large numbers of people feel economically or socially deprived of what they think they deserve

18. Resource Mobilization Theory • not even the most ill-treated group will be able to bring about change without resources • money ($$$) • people • media outlets

19. Case Study:Social Movements &Technology • Read the case study on pg. 453 &answer the questions in your journal. • What other social movements have originated as a result of new technology? • How do you see technology affecting social movements in the future? • What sorts of possible future movements, do you see coming as a result of technological aid?

20. Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear • Rally Highlights • Jon Stewart: Final Speech • In what ways is Stewart’s speech related to, or a commentary on, social movements? • Would you define the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear as a social movement? Why or why not? • If you would classify it as a social movement, what kind of movement is it? How do you know? • If you would not classify it as a social movement, what would it need to become one? Will it?