Social Movements Flashcards
What is a social movement?
Group of people doing things consistently over time
Social movements largely working outside the government (trying to tell the government, education system, etc to do things
What are democratic entitlements?
Arguments for entitlement that will lead to a more just world (expressed in social movements as people come together with the want to express themselves
1) “challenge existing systems of inequality” (Cairns, p. 35)
2) “strengthen collective capacities to govern ourselves” (Cairns, p. 36).
3) “satisfying human needs to help people live flourishing lives and further the collective development of human potential” (Cairns, p. 37).
Video: Girl says we should be entitled to safety
Example: BLACK LIVES MATTER
What are oppressive entitlements?
They feel entitled to a world of inequality that they are currently benefiting from.
1) “currents of oppressive entitlement are reproduced by feelings of deservingness or institutional support rooted in social hierarchies” (Cairns, p. 43).
These types of entitlement flourish in places like private school.
What are reform movements?
Reform movements (Interested in tweaking things within our broader system.)
Ex: MADD and National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)
What are revolutionary movements?
Revolutionary movements (Opposite of reform movements, wanting to overthrow capitalism)
movements that seek to completely change every aspect of society
What are redemptive movements?
Inward, individually focused but collectively with others, spiritual social movements, etc (trying to help individuals from within in a social context)
Ex: Alcoholics Anynymous, New Age, or Christian fundamentalist groups
What are alternative movements?
(social movements where individuals step outside of society, example people who live off the grid (Contemporary modernity is too consuming)) resending to society, but in a different way. very focused on the individual
Ex: Slow Food movement, Planned Parenthood, and barefoot jogging advocates
What are resistance movements?
(respond to other social movements, backlash) Imagining family life was better before social change. Added* ALL LIVES MATTER CAMPAIGN?
pro-life movements
Resistance movements are rooted in oppressive entitlement
What is diagnostic framing?
how the social movement and what the social movement defines as the problem
Ex: Drunk driving
What is prognostic framing?
solution, what society wants to do
Ex:Don’t drink and drive in front of your kids
What is motivational framing?
analyze how they’re appealing to people (individual consumer power, family, etc
Ex: Family
What is civil disobedience?
where actors in social movements try to effect change by saying these laws are unfair so they don’t abide by the laws = action) Also called passive resistance.
What is direct action?
(sometimes seen as civil disobedience, can be more active than passive resistance)
Includes nonviolent and violent activities
Targets individuals, groups, property
Examples: strikes, workplace occupations, sit-ins, sabotage, property destruction, graffiti
REGIONAL social movement Maple Spring?
- Printemps érable
- in response to proposed tuition hikes of Jean Charest’s provincial government (against austerity policies)
- at its peak 300,000 post-secondary students were on strike
What is culture jamming?
“Culture jamming is the practice of turning manifestations of consumer culture– in particular, advertising images– against themselves for political ends”
Culture jamming is an intriguing form of political communication that has emerged in response to the commercial isolation of public life
