Social Movements

What is a Social Movement

• long term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change

• A spontaneous social behavior

• a gathering of people who have limited interaction with each other

Movement that protects what is seen as society's prevailing values from changing

• New

• Reactionary

• Conservative

• Radical

What are the four cycles of a social movements life cycle in order

• Agitation

  Bureaucratization

  Institutionalization

  Legitimation

• Agitation

  Legitimation

  Bureaucratization

  Institutionalization

• Institutionalization

  Agitation

  Bureaucratization

  Legitimation

• Bureaucratization

  Legitimation

  Institutionalization

  Agitation

Reactionary Movements

• Movement to change current society

• Reverse current social trends, take it back to how it was in the past

A theory where large numebrs of people feel economically or socially deprived of what they deserve

• Resource Mobilization Theory

• Relative Deprivation Theory

• Value-Added Theory

• Emergent-Norm theory

Theory that even the most just cause by the most ill-treated group of people, will not be able to bring change without resources like supporters, financial resources and access to the media.

• Resource -Mobilization Theory

• Relative Deprivation Theory

• Contagion Theory

• Value-Added Theory

Improving some part of society through social change

• Bureaucratization

• Revolutionary Movement

• Agitation

• Revisionary Movement

Movement to overthrow existing government for a a total and radical change to the existing social structure

• Value-Added Theory

• Relative Deprivation Theory

• Revolutionary Movements

• Legitimation