Introduction to Sociology/Social Movements / Week 12/문수빈(Soo Bin Moon)

Summary:

 Social movements are unofficial, social alliances and have common interests. With the spread of culture and the industrialization of society, modern social movements have become more active.
And social movement organizations are social movements, but they are not the only organizations that do social movements. There are four areas of social movement: the democracy movement, the labor movement, the environmental movement, and the peace movement.
There are various theories that explain the evolution of social movements. Deprivation theory, large social theory, structural transformation theory, resource mobilization theory, and political process theory. Among them, cultural theory is based on political process and mobilization theory, but emphasizes the importance of mobile culture and tries to solve free rider problem.

 

 

 

What was interesting/What did we learn:

 

 I was impressed with the theory of deprivation. In fact, people say they start a social movement to improve what they lack. I felt sympathy for this. It is because the social movement is asking society to improve on certain problems. In addition, I think that the structural transformation theory has six factors that encourage social movement development. It is because various social movements can be unfolded in an open society and it is a starting point of a dissatisfied social movement.

 

 

Discussion point:

Which of the various theories that explain the development of social movements do you think is most appropriate?