Social transformation

Social Transformation module

150 words for each answer

1. Identify a definition of a Social Movement

2. Identify and research a Social Movement

3. How does the definition fit?

4. What is the movement’s context?

5. How are people mobilised? What resources are used?

6. What framework is used? What is the activists meaning or belief-system?

7. Was it/is it successful? How/Why not?

8. Discuss whether the Global Anti-COVID Measure protests constitute a social movement.

Some literatures:

• Sidney Tarrow, Understanding political change in Eastern Europe. Aiming at a moving target: Social Science and the rebellions in Eastern Europe, in Political Science and Politics 24, 1991, pp.12 – 190.

• John McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald , ‘Resource mobilisation and social movements: a partial theory, in American Journal of Sociology 82, 1977, pp. 1212-1241.

• Theodor W. Adorno, ‘Notes on the static and the dynamic in society’, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 8, 1956, pp.321-328.

• Charles Tilly, ‘Social movements and national politics’ in Bright and Harding eds, Statemeking and social movements, 1984, pp.297-317.

• Charles Tilly, Social movements , 1768-2004, 2004, p.3.