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high-risk activism, such as the civil rights movement,

"strong-tie" phenomenon

four-stage process

.preliminary, coalescence stage,institutionalization stage,decline stage.

_____ movements are focused on each individual's self-improvement and limited, specific changes to individual beliefs and behavior

Alternative

that connects uninvolved individuals and unorganized or ineffective groups with social movements that, though structurally unconnected, nonetheless share similar interests or goals.

Bridging

Body parts forming symbols

Collective gesticulation

The direction and rate of movement to the even

Collective locomotion

Objects collectively moved around

Collective manipulation

Collective and simultaneous participation in a speech or song

Collective verbalization

Sounds or noises made collectively

Collective vocalization

focus on processes of change that are efforts to resolve the inequality between various interest groups in the system.

Conflict theorists

According to Marshall Ganz in the video, "How People Power Generates Change", at the heart of democracy is a system of

Constructive contention

Group all facing the same direction

Convergent orientation

According to _____ theory, people perceive and respond to a crowd situation with their own particular (individual) set of norms, which may change as the crowd experience evolves.

Emergent norm

Convergence clusters

Family and friends who travel together

Sociologists have developed the concept of ____ to explain how individuals identify and understand social norms and which norms they should follow in any given situation.

Framing

believe social change occurs when change becomes necessary for the survival of the overall social system.

Functionalists

According to the information presented in the video, "How People Power Generates Change", in order to motivate people to join your social movement, you need to ___

Give them a sense of the values you and they share as a community

that to understand social change, you must begin by examining the meaning that each of the different groups involved in the change give to the context in which the change efforts take place, and to the outcome of those efforts itself. T

Interactionists believe

In the video, "Online Social Change: Easy to Organize, Hard to Win", sociologist Zeynep Tufekci notes an important difference between today's social movements, which are organized through social media, and social movements that were built before the invention of computers and social media. That difference is:

Movements previously had to rely on face to face interaction and printed messages to build their base and organize their activities, but this gave them a viable structure that today's movements, organized through social media, do not have

_ theory that revolves around understanding movements as the they relate to politics, identity, culture and social change

New social movement

the second type, offers a solution and states how it will be implemented.

Prognostic framing,

movements seek to change something specific about the social structure.

Reform

seek to change something specific about the social structure.

Reform movements

_ movements are focused on provoking inner change or spiritual growth in individuals.

Religious/ Redemptive

are "meaning seeking," and their goal is to provoke inner change or spiritual growth in individuals.

Religious/Redemptive movements

seek to prevent or undo change to the social structure.

Resistance movements

as a way to explain movement success in terms of the ability to acquire resources and mobilize individuals.

Resource Mobilization Theory

seek to completely change every aspect of society.

Revolutionary movements

is change that affects an entire social system. As depicted on the slide here, "entire social system"

Social change

(A/an) _____ is a purposeful, organized group of people who strive to work toward a common social goal.

Social movement

are problems that affect people society-wide. In the United States, some examples of social problems we have are income inequality and institutionalized racism.

Social problems

In the video, "Online Social Change: Easy to Organize, Hard to Win", sociologist Zeynep Tufekci notes that what enables movements to succeed is their members' capacity to:

Think collectively, create consensus Figure out how to take steps politically and relate them to leverage Develop strong policy proposals

means a complete revision of goals. Once a movement has succeeded, it risks losing relevance. If it wants to remain active, the movement has to change with the transformation or risk becoming obsolete.

Transformation

Use of social media is a _____ phenomenon.

Weak-tie

According to the information presented in the video, "How People Power Generates Change", if you want to organize a social movement, the first question you have to ask yourself is '_

Who are my people?

In the video, "Online Social Change: Easy to Organize, Hard to Win", sociologist Zeynep Tufekci asserted it was not true, as was claimed by Malcolm Gladwell, that today's protesters form weaker ties with each other.To support her assertion, Tufekci pointed out that today's protesters come to protests:

With their friends and members of their already-existing networks

model, organizations seek to expand their core ideas to gain a wider, more universal appeal.

amplification

collective behavior that credited individuals in crowds as rational beings.

assembling perspective

when people join together and organize in order to publicize the issue and raise awareness.

coalescence stage

is based on a shared interest.

collective action

Each social movement discussed earlier belongs in one of these four stages.

decline stage

states the problem in a clear, easily understood way. When applying diagnostic frames, there are no shades of gray: instead, there is the belief that what "they" do is wrong and this is how "we" will fix it.

diagnostic framing

three kinds of frames

diagnostic framing,Prognostic framing,motivational framing

which focuses on the patriarchal society as the source of environmental problems, and the transgender rights movement.

ecofeminism

crowds are not viewed as irrational, impulsive, uncontrolled groups. Instead, norms develop and are accepted as they fit the situation.

emergent-norm perspective

social movements agree to mutually promote each other, even when the two social movement organization's goals don't necessarily relate to each other's immediate goals.

extension

some groups find it best to join together to maximize their impact. When social movements link their goals to the goals of other social movements and merge into a single group,

frame alignment process

the movement no longer requires grassroots volunteerism: it is an established organization, typically with a paid staff.

institutionalization stage,

how they emerge, grow, and in some cases, die out. Blumer

lifecycle of social movements

is the call to action: what should you do once you agree with the diagnostic frame and believe in the prognostic frame

motivational framing

__ are problems that have to do with the individual and his/her immediate milieu.

personal problems

people become aware of an issue, and leaders emerge.

preliminary stage

which is the collection of the social movement organizations that are striving toward similar goals, was growing.

social movement industry,

(A) _______ is a more organized and stable type of group than is (a) _

social movement, collective behavior

movements can occur on the local, national, or even global stage

social movements

__ are located at the social-structural level of society and are thus problems within major social institutions.

social problems

The social change process begins when a subset of the society's members interact and decide a problem exists, such that "_

something has to be done