Class Notes
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Week 1: Introduction to Social Movements

Week 2: the 1800s -- Collective Behavior and Social Contagion Theory

Week 2-3: Global Social Change and Relative Deprivation Theory

Week 3-4: Labor in the 1800s: Abolitionism and the Worker's Rights Movement:
Neil Smelser's Value-Added (Structural Strain) and Marxist Conflict Theory

Weeks 4-5: The early 1900s -- Women's Suffrage and Turner & Killian's Emergent Norm Theory

Week 6: Midterm
Midterm Review Sheet

Fall Break 1

Week 8: The 1950s: Resource Mobilization Theory
Civil Rights and
Leadership
Organizations of the Civil Rights Movement

Week 9: The 1960s: Symbols/Values in Social Movements: Women's Liberation

Week 10: The 1970s: Political Processes and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement

Week 11: The 1980s: Cultural Framing and the Environmental Movement

Week 12: The 1990s: Identity Rights Movements: BLM (Civil Rights) & #MeToo (4th wave feminism)

Week 13:The 2000s: Racial Supremacy, Nationalist, and Conservative/Reactionary Movements

Fall Break 2

Week 14: Can We Change The Future? / prepare for Final Exam

Week 15: FINAL EXAM (TBA)


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