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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 3150 - Social Movements

Credits: 4
The course is organized around key sociological questions about social movements: When and why do they occur? Who joins, supports, and leaves them? How are movements organized, and what do they do? How are they influenced by external forces, such as the state and mass media? Finally, why do movements decline, and how can we measure any changes that they ultimately bring about? In the process of answering these questions, we will examine the dominant ways of thinking about social movements, including resource mobilization theory, the political process model, and cultural approaches.
Fulfills: SOSC requirement in LS Core.