Social Movements

Question 1

Social Movements definition

Answer 1

groups that are not connected to a greater institution, grass roots

Question 2

Why do social movements occur?

Answer 2

• For some cause/ goal and to get their voice across and make a change.
• People come together when a problem gets bad.
• People get restless and take action.

Question 3

Types of Social Movements

Answer 3

• Reformist
• Revolutionary
• Resistance
• Restorative
• Expressive

Question 4

Types of Social Movements: Reformist

Answer 4

• Trying to break down existing institutions or policies to promote change.
• Ex: Civil rights movement, same-sex marriage

Question 5

Types of Social Movements: Revolutionary

Answer 5

• Seeks to change entire structure, completely replace institution, change the status quo.
• Often related to threat or force.
• Ex: zapatistas: group against Mexican state, practice civil resistance

Question 6

Types of Social Movements: Resistance

Answer 6

seek to maintain existing structures, maintain status quo

Question 7

Types of Social Movements: Restorative

Answer 7

seek to restore conditions to an older, supposedly better way of life

Question 8

Types of Social Movements: Expressive

Answer 8

seeks to make individual change rather than changing institutions and laws directly

Question 9

Tactics of Social Movements

Answer 9

• Confrontation
• Cultural Politics
• Social Protest & Media
• Face-to-Face Engagement

Question 10

Tactics of Social Movements: Confrontation

Answer 10

direct challenges or violations to institutional norms or rules
- Ex: boycotts or sit-ins

Question 11

Tactics of Social Movements: Cultural Politics

Answer 11

the way we do work behind-the-scenes to make a change

• Help us develop social consciousness about issues
• Ex: meetings, boardrooms, lecture/discussion, theatres

Question 12

Tactics of Social Movements: Social Protest & Media

Answer 12

• Media allows us to have a broader audience
• May overlap with confrontation
• Ex: parades, protests

Question 13

Tactics of Social Movements: Face-to- Face Engagement

Answer 13

• We have conversations with people about issues, discuss ideas
• Ex: churches, temples, knock on doors & talk

Question 14

Why do we study social movements?

Answer 14

• Means to interrogate ideology and dominant discourses
• Means to examine contradictions and tensions of movements
• Means to understand how change comes about in society

Question 15

What should critics look at when studying social movements?: Social movements as phenomenon (Griffin)

Answer 15

• Three stages, Inception, rhetorical crisis, consummation
• Governed by time
• Isolate rhetoric within the historical movement (study movement when movement was over)

Question 16

What should critics look at when studying social movements?: Social movements as a set of meanings (McGee)

Answer 16

• Based in interpretation (allows us to look at past movements and translate them to the future so we can ask deep questions)
• Focus should be on examining discourse
• What do these tactics do? How do they function?
• Allows us to see how movement is presented in the minds of other people.
• Anything we need to know about the movement (reasoning, purpose, focus)

Question 17

Studying Social Movements: inception

Answer 17

The beginning of the movement

Question 18

Studying Social Movements: rhetorical crisis

Answer 18

Will the supporters continue?

Question 19

Studying Social Movements: consummation

Answer 19

The end of the movement