Week 12 Flashcards
Social change
Refers to significant alterations over time in the social structures of society
What do sociologists use social movements for?
To refer to organized collective activities t0 bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society
Hegemonic groups
Segment of the society who control the main resources in the economy and have power and influence over others
What is the core of political and ideological struggles in many societies?
Differences among hegemonic groups and their opponents
Civil society
All social groups and relationships outside the state and private sector
Astroturfing
Governments, corporations or political parties for organizations pretending to ne civil society organizations, hiding their original intentions and sponsors
What quest astroturfing refer to?
Fake grassroots of organizations.
Alternative movement
Seek limited change only in some specific areas often involving life style issues such as mothers against drunk driving
Redemptive movements
Focus on a specific segment of the society in on existing political system. Target more limited changes but want these changes to take place at the societal level
Revolutionary movements
Seek comprehensive transformation of a society in a new way.
Relative deprivation
The perception of discrepancies between what participants believe they deserve and what they receive.
Who is likely to join a movement?
Those who experience an relative decline in their situation
Resource mobilization
Refers to the ways in which social movements utilize such resources as money, political influence, access to the media and personnel.
Leadership is a central factor in what?
In mobilizing the discontented into solace movements
What are social movements organized around?
Values and social identities, as hill as improvements in the quality of life and environment with A specific focus on an issue
Framing theory
Argues that social movements construct reality for their members and potential allies by providing frames.
Which perspectiveis the framing theory influenced by?
Symbolic interactionist
Theories of change + modernity
Evolutionary perspective
(Compte, Durkheim, Spencer)
Believes that society is constantly progressing from simple to complex
Theories of change + modernity
Functionalist perspective
Tailor parsons
Focus on what maintains a system, not what changes it
Equilibrium model → changes in one part of society will result in adjustment in other parts
Theories of change + modernity
Conflict perspective
Marx
Class conflict and differences in who will control resources and power eventually read to polarization toward the direction of change in society
Marx claimed that every society rests upon an economic base, which he called the infrastructure
Theories of change + modernity
Feminist
Look at social change as A desireable category to make the world more just + humane
Vested interests
Refers to those people or groups with a stake in the existing order and have something to lose if change occurs
Nimbyism
Not in my backyard
Return to narrow minded resistance to change driven by self interests that people display in their locality.
Ogburn + cultural lag
Argued that non material culture typically responds to changes in material culture
When does culture lag occur?
When non-material culture is still struggling to adjust to changes in the material culture
Neo-luddites
Those who question the expansion of industrialization, the increasing destruction of the natural and agrarian world, and the “ throw it away” mentality of contemporary capitalism
Frame
Specific interpretations of reality that guide people to providing solutions to problems
