SOCI Social Movements CH16

social movements

an organized effort by one or more groups in society to promote or resist social change through various types of engagement

collective action

the mobilization and actions of members of a social movement toward a unifying goal

WUNC

an acronym to describe social movement actors as worthy, unified, numerous, and committed

social movement organization (SMO)

a specific type of social movement rather than social movements in general

smart mob

a network of digitally savvy citizens who engage with each via mobile technology and social media in an ad hoc and networked form of pop-up protest

Tilly defined repertoires of collective action as

sets of skills or behaviors

machine breaking

describe workers’ actions against machinery and the social changes resulting from industrialization

women’s suffrage

right of women to vote in political elections and the movement formed to achieve this right

arab spring

a collective action in which citizens engaged during 2010 and 2011 in several Middle Eastern and North African countries to resists government rule, protest social and economic inequality, and advocate for social change

riots

term applied by the media or dominant groups to discredit a protest and its members by associating them with unpredictable and disordered collective action that may threaten civil order

rebellion

armed opposition to an established government or authority by a social group

revolution

a movement to overthrow those in power to establish a new, more egalitarian social order that places new elites into positions of power

digital smart mob

a group of digitally savvy citizens who coordinate in real time and through networked forms of pop-up protest po

pop-up

refers to the unpredictability of how the movement mobilizes in a city, using surprise appearances as a tactic (ex: 2020 protests in Hong Kong known as the Water Moverment)

slacktivism (or clicktivism)

minimal involvement in a social movement through simplistic actions like clicking a “like” button on social media to show support

property damage

exercised with the intent to destroy public or public property

sabotage

is intended to deliberately obstruct the functioning of society for specific purposes

comparative historical analysis

comparing countries to learn how their various political systems developed and what economic, social, and historical factors led to differences

bourgeois revolution

a revolution that aims to bring down a feudal system to raise the bourgeois to power

first-wave feminism

came about from social changes resulting from industrialization in many Western countries

second wave feminism

women’s movement expanded its objective to include issues with reproductive rights, recognition of housework as labour, equal pay, and violence against women.

third wave feminism

failing of white middle-classs feminists to recognize issues of race, sexuality, and class gave way

network social movements

are new types of social movements that are decentralized and heavily rely on information and communication technologies to share information, mobile resources, and engage social activists

horizontal forms of organizing

involve the organization or structure of a group, whereby every member of the group is considered as equal—no superiors or subordinates. Instead of hierarchies, it emphasizes teamwork and equal collaboration among group members

new social movement (NSM) Theory

The study of new types of social movements that differ from traditional social movements

lifeworld

describes how the world is experienced or lived; all the activists and contacts that make up the world of an individual or group

Herbert Blumer (1969)

first to describe the life cycle of a social movement, examining how it emerges, grows, and eventually declines

1. Stage 1: Emergence

2. Stage 2: Coalescence

3. Stage 3: Bureaucratization

4. Stage 4: Decline

Charles Tilly (1986)

investigated early forms of social movements in the European context and describes how protests taking place in seventeenth-century France were small in scale, localized in nature, had little to no organizational structure, and effected minimal social change