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Week 1: Introduction to Social Movements

Week 2: Pre-1970s Social Movements Theory:
Collective Behavior and Social Contagion

Weeks 3-4: The Worker's Rights Movement and Women's Suffrage:
Neil Smelser's Value-Added Theory and Turner & Killian's Emergent Norm Theory

Week 5: Non-Democratic Social Movements:
Democracy, Elites, and Mass Society Theory

Week 6: Midterm
Midterm Review Sheet

Fall Break 1

Week 8: a) Resource Mobilization Theory
b) Civil Rights
c) Leadership
Organizations of the Civil Rights Movement

Week 9: Symbols/Values in Social Movements: Women's Liberation

Week 10: Political Processes and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement

Week 11: Cultural Framing and the Environmental Movement

Week 12: Identity Rights Movements: BLM (Civil Rights) & #MeToo (4th wave feminism)

Week 13: Racial Supremacy, Nationalist, and Conservative/Reactionary Movements

Fall Break 2

Week 15: FINAL EXAM TBA

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