Social Movements
Social Movements have a dramatic impact in our society. They bring out a lot of conflict, social change and inequality. When people are bothered by the way things are a social movement may occur. There are two explanations for why people mobilize. The first one is relative deprivation, which means the conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities. (Things are not as good as you hoped they would be.) The second is resource mobilization. The ways in which a social movement utilizes resources like money, political influence, access to the media and personnel.
1. Why do people join social movements? 2. How do they interact with other members of the movement and with people who are not members once they join? 3. How does the movement interact with society-at-large?
Functionalist: Social movements are a training ground for leaders of the political establishment. Functionalists believe in the equilibrium model which means when......
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