Social movement

 

 

 

1) Pick a social movement to discuss. You may refer to one of the social movements listed in our text or you may find a peer-reviewed journal article that adequately describes a social movement.
A) Briefly describe the social movement in your own words.
B) What type of movement is/was it (revolutionary/reform, instrumental/expressive)? Explain your answer.
C) Apply one microsocial or macrostructrual explanation of social movements to your chosen movement. How does this explanation account for the origins of this social movement?
D) Completely Optional: Using Smelser’s “types of responses by the authorities to social movements,” explain the outcomes of this social movement.

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