Unit 4 Social Movements Key Terms
emergence
1st stage of a SM. developing identity - lack of strategies, goals and formal structure
coalescence
2nd stage of a SM. membership growth, heightened awareness, strategies and goals formalised.
bureaucratisation
3rd stage of SM. Formal structure with management and paid staff. Strategic decision making responses rather than passionate 'energetic' responses.
decline
4th stage of SM. Engagement and participation declines.
power
Ability to acheive goals despite resistance from others. It can be acheived through force or money.
alternative movement example
Alcoholics anonymous
revolutionary movement example
French Revolution
three characteristics of a NSM
Informal networks between groups and people. Collective identity. A view different to mainstream politics.
reform movement example
PETA
4 reasons a SM declines
Success - acheive their goal. Failure - ends for leadership, $, loss of interest, conflict (goals, tactics, people). Co-optation - focus on a personality and they leave or lose favour (ego, influence or manipulate). Repression - aughorities control or suppress a movement.
social movement
a group that is organised to promote or resist social change
collective identity
belonging to a social movement and its values gives a person a feeling they can change the world
defensive NSM
defending or protecting natural or social environments from government or industry. e.g. PETA
alternative social movements
encourage individuals to change their own behaviour - small change to individual.
ICT
equipment or machinery used to store and distribute information.
redemptive social movements
group attempting radical change in individuals - big change to individual.
reform movements
group attempting small change across society - small change to society
revolutionary movement
group radically change the struture of society - big change to all
a criticism of relative deprivation theory
how could a social movement come about in some locations but not in others - suffrage started in Australia, NZ, USA & UK but not in Asia.
methods used by social movements to encoirage change
protest marches, coordinated demands, publicity, civil disobedience
redemptive movement example
religious cult
relative deprevation theory
social movements come out of people seeing others 'with' as they exist 'without'
new social movements theory
social movements since the 60's have come about to shift social or cultural views.
offensive NSM
stand up for the marginalised or repressed by exposing discrimination. e.g. urban seed for homeless
social change
the alteration of culture and social institutions over time, reflected in social behaviour.