16.2 part 2

Question 1

Alternative social movements

Answer 1

-Least threatening to status quo
- seek limted change in only part of population
- Aim to help certain people alter their lives

Question 2

Redemptive social movements

Answer 2

• Target specific individuals
• seek radical change
• Aim to help certain people redeem their lives
• E.g. Alcoholics Anonymous

Question 3

Reformative social movements

Answer 3

• Aim for limited change
• target everyone
• e.g. Same-sex marriage movement

Question 4

Revolutionary social movements

Answer 4

• Most extreme
• Want major transformation of an entire society
• Can come from both far-left and far-right
• seek to radically change our way of life

Question 5

Claims making

Answer 5

The process of trying to convince the public and public officials of the importance of joining a social movement to address a particular issue

Question 6

Relative deprivation

Answer 6

A perceived disadvantage arising from some specific comparison

Question 7

Deprivation Theory

Answer 7

suggests social movements arise among people who feel deprived of something (income, political rights, etc.)

Question 8

Mass-society Theory

Answer 8

Argues social movemrnts attract socially isolated people who join movements to get a sense of belonging, identity, and purpose

Question 9

Culture Theory

Answer 9

Social movements depend not only on money and other material resources but also on cultural symbols

Question 10

Resource mobilization theory

Answer 10

No social movement is likely to succeed without substantial resources - money, lavour, social and mass media, etc.

Question 11

Political economy Theory

Answer 11

Marxist approach claiming that social movements arise in opposition to the capitalist economic system, which fails to meet the needs of most people

Question 12

New social movements theory

Answer 12

• Looks at distinctive character of recent social movements in post-industrial societies. Instead of seeking unity of specific economic/politcal demans, movements are non-unified, leaderless, and expressive
• results in closer ties between ordinary people around the world

Question 13

What are the four stages of social movements?

Answer 13

• Emergence
• Coalescence
• bureaucratization
• Decline

Question 14

Emergence

Answer 14

People starting to think that things aren’t well

Question 15

Coalescence

Answer 15

When a social movement defines itself and develops a strategy from attracting people and going public

Question 16

Bureaucratization

Answer 16

Movement becomes established

Question 17

Decline

Answer 17

Caused by resources drying up, group faces overwhelming repression, leadership is bought off, memebers achieve their goals