Social Movement

Pick a Social Movement/ Case Study – I like the idea of writing about gender based violence.

Advised reading by lecturers –

Edwards, G. (2014) Social Movements and Protest. Cambridge University Press

• Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age by Alberto Melucci.
• Marxism and Social Movements edited by Colin Barker et al..
• Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.

Lifestyle Movements: Exploring the Intersection of Lifestyle and Social Movements

• Article Haenfler, Ross ; Johnson, Brett ; Jones, Ellis, Social movement studies, 11(1), 2012, 1 – 20
• Surfing the Global Protest Wave’ by Dr Kevin Gillan (please note the whole edition is attached but you only have to read Kevin’s article, the first one on pages 15-17).

Theories to potentially use –

• Relative deprivation theory
• Social disconnection theory (mass society)
• Structural strains
• Crowd psychology (Blumer, Le Bon)
• Smelser’s 6-point
• Resource Mobilization Theory
• New social Movement
• Understand the methods through which direct democracy is practiced and the contexts it which has been adopted
• Know what is meant by ‘consensus decision making’ and its potential benefits and pitfalls

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