Social Movement Focabulary

people are upset about some condition in society & want to change
-most social movements fail at this stage--don't get enough support & die

• Initial Unrest & Agitation

• Organizational decline & possible resurgence

• Reformative social movement

• Organization

managing the day-to-day affairs of the organization dominates the leadership
-a change in public sentiment may have occurred
-there may no longer be a group of committed people who share a common cause
-the movement is likely to wither away

• Metaformative Social Movement

• Transformative Social Movement

• Organization

• Organizational Decline & Possible Resurgence

:industrialized, highly bureaucratized, impersonal society

• Relative Deprivation Theory

• Mass Society

• Resource Mobilization

• Reactive Social Movement

a social movement that seeks to change people totally

• Alternative Social Movement

• Reactive Social Movement

• Redemptive Social Movement

• Proactive Social Movement

an organization people develop to further the goals of a social movement

• Reactive Social Movement

• Social Movement

• Social Movement Organization

• Proactive Social Movement

most committed to the movement, sets the groups goals, time tables, & strategies

• Earth's Core

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

• Less Committed

broad senses--the presentation of information in the attempt to influence people, narrow sense-one-sided information used to try to influence people

• Propaganda

• Predicament

• Social Movement

• Publicity

1. Inner core
2. Committed
3. Less committed
4. Sympathetic public
5. Hostile public
6. Disinterested public

• Reactive Social Movement

• Proactive Social Movement

• Redemptive Social Movement

• Levels of Social Movement Membership

committed, but less than the inner core, can be counted on to show up for demonstrations & grunt work

• Sympathetic Public

• Determined

• Committed

• Detic

unaware or indifferent to the social movement

• Disinterested Public

• Hostile Public

• Sympathetic Public

• Employees