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Week10_ChallengesAheadandActivism.pptx
Challenges Ahead and Activism
Week 10
Collective Behavior
What is it?
Non-institutionalized activity in which several people voluntarily engage.
Examples?
Theoretical Perspectives
Emergent-Norm Perspective
People perceive and respond to circumstances based on their own set of norms but when a situation arises that is unfamiliar, people act in groups to develop new norms
What does this sound like? (which classical theory?)
Value-Added Theory
A set of conditions must be in pace for collective behavior to occur – structural conduciveness, structural strain, generalized belief, precipitating factors, mobilization, and social control
Which classical theory does this sound like?
Assembling Perspective
Focus on collective action based on shared interest
Individuals are rational beings
Social Movements
What are they?
Purposeful, organized groups working toward a common social goal
Local, state, national, and global levels
Examples?
Stages of social movements
Preliminary stage, coalescence, institutionalization, decline
Theoretical Perspectives
Resource mobilization: Ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals
Framing/Frame Analysis: Diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing
Frame alignment process
New Social Movement Theory: Understands social movements as they relate to politics, identity, culture, and social change
Examples: Ecofeminism, transgender rights movement, black lives matter movement
Social Change
How does it happen?
Changes in technology, social institutions, population, and the environment
How might these things cause change, spur collective action, or open the door for new social movements?
Activism
Vigorous direct action used to catalyze changes in social policies, institutions, and structures.
Protests, petitions, strikes, lobbying, public displays, political artwork, community education
What are some unique challenges to activism that have come up during the pandemic?
Discussion
Have any topics or social problems discussed this quarter prompted you to become involved in activism, if you weren’t involved already?
If yes, what have you become involved in and why?
What challenges do you foresee for the future of solving social problems?
Can we overcome those challenges? What would it take to overcome them?
