Social Movements

A long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change.

• Reactionary Movement

• Conservative Movement

• Social Movement

• Revolutionary Movement

Which of the following is not a feature of social movements?

• Long-Lasting

• Goal

• violence

• Well known structure and organization

What are the two sociological explanations of the social movements

• Agitation - Bureaucratization

• Institutionalization - Legitimation

• Relative Deprivation - Resource- Mobilization

• Bureaucratization: - Institutionalization

The movement will get a structure of authority, official policies and strategies for the future.

• Institutionalization

• Agitation

• Legitimation

• Bureaucratization

Its the final stage, the bureaucrats who overseas daily operations replace idealistic leaders who found the movement. Bureaucrats care about their positions more than the goals of the movement.

• Bureaucratization

• Institutionalization

• Agitation

• Legitimation

According to this theory, people join social movements because they feel deprived relative to other people with whom they identify

• Resource- Mobilization

• Bureaucratization

• Legitimation

• Relative Deprivation

Alternations in various aspects of society over time.

• Social movement

• Revisionary movement

• Social Change

• Revolutionary movement