Module Title
Social Movements And Social Change
Keywords
social movement, collective action, protest, social change, resource mobilisation, new social movements |
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Prerequisites for Module
None.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To provide students with an understanding of the character, origins and influence of social movements.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Explain and analyse critically the concept of a social movement.
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Evaluate critically theoretical perspectives on social movements and social change.
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Provide a detailed account of one social movement or type of social movement utilising relevant sociological theory and research findings.
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Indicative Module Content
The concept of social movement.
Theoretical perspectives on social movements, protest and change, e.g. grievance, resource mobilisation and political opportunity theories.
| Specific movements and types of movement, e.g. working class/labour movements; nationalist movements; anti-nuclear movements; environmentalism/green politics; moral reform,/crusade movements; black civil rights; feminism; sexual minority group movements; the disability rights movement.
Indicative Student Workload
Contact Hours
| Full Time | Lectures
| 12 | Seminars/tasks
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Directed Study
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| 52 |
Private Study
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| 74 |
Mode of Delivery
While lectures and seminars provide the basis of the module, students are expected to use initiative in locating, evaluating and utilising sources of information relating to social movements.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Coursework | 1,2,3
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Coursework consists of an essay.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | CROSSLEY, N., 2002 Making Sense of Social Movements. Open University Buckingham Press.
| | 2. | DELLA PORTO, D. AND DIANI, M., 1999 Social Movements: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
| | 3. | DELLA PORTO, D. et al, 1999. Social Movements in a Globalizing World. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
| | 4. | TARROW, S., 1998. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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