Navigating Politic And Social Movements

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Politics

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Th processing by which individuals and groups act to promote their interests.

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Social Movements

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Organized groups of people with an agenda or plan for social change, to be achieved through agitation and political pressure.

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Ideology

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A system of ideas and ideals forming the basis of a social, political, or economic policy or protest.

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Dominant

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Supports the status quo and the interests of the ruling class.

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Counter-Ideology

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An ideology that supports alternative social values and challenges the dominant ideology.

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Tied to Hegemony

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The power of a group or class to translate its world view (ideology) into dominance. (Gramsci)

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Reformist Ideologies

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Call for minor changes to the degree of inequality, but do not challenge the basic ground rules that underlie that inequality.

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Radical Ideologies

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Call for radical change (change from the root up).

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Power

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The capacity to compel people to act in certain ways, obtained and wielded through the political process.

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Political Power

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Control over the legitimate use of violence (e.g. control over the state, police, or military)

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Economic Power

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Control over material production and/or resources (capital, technology, labour, materials, money, etc)

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Ideological Power

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Ability to spread symbols and ideologies through social institutions (schools, churches, media, etc)

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Political Sociology

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Deals with relations between political and social institutions.

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Political Science

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Deals with the machinery of government and public administration.

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State

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Set of institutions with the authority to make the rules that govern a society.

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Authoritarian

-Types of Modern State

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Forbid public opposition and use force to ensure compliance with written laws.

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Totalitarian

-Types of Modern State

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More extreme and often more stable, versions of authoritarian states that interviene in both public and private life, controlling the activities of citizens.

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Liberal-Democratic

-Types of Modern State

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Governed by their citizens through free elections that reflect majority interests.

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Civil Liberties

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Freedoms that protect the individual against the government, including freedom of speech, freedom of movement and freedom of the press.

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Civil Society

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Linked to peaceful protest --offers a way of organizing peacefully and nearly invisibly to direct the way society is changing.

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Civil Rights

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Rights all people deserve under all circumstances, without regard to race, ethnicity, age, sex, or other personal qualitities.

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Political Violence

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Representatives of one political or national group inflict violence to perpetuate or change the relative political status of another political or national group.

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Class consciousness

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As defined by Marx, a social class's awareness of their common interests, which typically generates a commitment to work together to attain collective goals.

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Authority

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Power

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Traditional

-Types of Authority (Weber)

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The power-holders is supported by ancient traditions and can expect obedience as long as he/she upholds these traditions.

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Charismatic

-Types of Authority (Weber)

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Based on the power-holders exceptional qualities, especially the force of his/her personally.

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Rational-Legal

-Types of Authority (Weber)

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Based on formally established rules and procedures (the most common form of power found in modern soci

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Riots

- Types of Social Movements

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Collective Protests against authority that are undirected, emotional, and violent with outcomes that are unplanned and unpredicted.

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Revolution

- Types of Social Movements

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Overthrow of the prevailing elite by a new elite who fundamentally change the social structure and structure of authority.

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Rebellions

-Types of Social Movements

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Armed opposition by a portion of citizenry to an established government/authority.

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Populists Movements

-Types of Social Movements

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Aimed at moving power back to individual voters, rather than their representative elites, or backroom brokers.

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Types of Social Movements

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Social movements arise when people gain access to at least one of these resources.

Social movements succeed when protestors gain access to more of these resources than the forces opposing them.

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Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)

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Argued that crowds are sets of people with a single, fixed thought, driven by unconscious motives, and are as easily driven to criminal acts as heroic acts.

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Barrington Moore (1913-2005)

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Proposed that class power determines the single role played by the state in modernization, linking upper-class domination to fascism, middle-class domination to liberal democracy, and peasant to communism.

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Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006)

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Compared American society to other developed nations, observing that American authority is grounded in revolution, which Canadian authority is grounded in tradi

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Charles Tilly (1929-2008)

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Showed how social protest is inevitably linked to the politics, society, and economics of its time and place.

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Sylvia Bashevkin

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Proposes that the underrepresentation of women in Canadian politics is not a result of women's reluctance to become politically involved but rather that voters are uncomfortable with the idea of putting women in positions of political power.