Social Movements
Complete tables and questions before embarking on your research of your own social movement.
TYPES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
TYPE |
DEFINITION |
EXAMPLE |
Resistance |
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Reform |
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Utopian |
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Revolutionary |
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What three things must happen to make a phenomenon a social movement?
LIFE CYCLE OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Stage of Cycle |
Definition |
Example |
1) Agitation |
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2) Legitimation |
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3) Bureaucrazation |
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4) Institutionalization |
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Researching your own Social Movement
You and a partner will now have the opportunity to research your own social movement. You will complete tables like you recently did, but without the need to put in definitions.
Listed below are social movement web sites that will give you ideas and appropriate links. Once you have selected a topic and acquired approval from the instructor, copy and paste the Activity 3 - Social Movement Activity Sheet to a word document. Next, complete your research and fill in the tables and questions with the appropriate information. Do not forget to copy and paste the web addresses to the bibliography at the end of the activity sheet. Included in your bibliography are the title of the site, author (if available), date & time that you got your information.
Social Movement Web Sites
Top political, social, economical, and spiritual movements of the 20th Century
These political, social, economic and spiritual movements received the most votes in a JSOnline poll. The poll asked people to nominate the top 10 political, social, economic and spiritual movements of the 20th Century - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online
http://www.jsonline.com/news/2000/topmovements.asp
Links to Activism Sites on the Web
Categorized under 18 topics
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nvandyke/active.htm
Key Internet Social Movement Links
Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Activism, Collective Action, Social Movements, Utopianism
Political Parties, Interest Groups, and other social movements
Listed links by country
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/parties.htm
Mobilization
Journal that focuses on social movements
http://www.infonex.com/mobilization/Table%20of%20Contents/Volume11.html
Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Feminist Social Movements - Web Sites
Social Movements - linked sites
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