Examples of reformative social movements in the following topics:
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- The diagram below illustrates how a social movement may either be alternative, redemptive, reformative or revolutionary based on who the movement strives to change and how much change the movement desires to bring about .
- Scope: A movement can be either reform or radical.
- A reform movement advocates changing some norms or laws while a radical movement is dedicated to changing value systems in some fundamental way.
- A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
- Based on who a movement is trying to change and how much change a movement is advocating, Aberle identified four types of social movements: redemptive, reformative, revolutionary and alternative.
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- Sociologists draw distinctions between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
- A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
- Thus, promoting veganism would be considered the social movement, while PETA would be considered a particular SMO (social movement organization) working within the broader social movement.
- In large part, these oppositional groups formed because the women's movement advocated for reform in conservative religions.
- Discover the difference between social movements and social movement organizations, as well as the four areas social movements operate within
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- Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially owned and used to meet human needs, not to create profits.
- Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially owned and used to meet human needs instead of to create profits.
- Social ownership of the means of production can take many forms.
- As a political movement, socialism includes a diverse array of political philosophies, ranging from reformism to revolutionary socialism, from a planned economy to market socialism.
- Discuss the various implementations of socialism, from reformism to revolutionary socialism
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- Social movements do not have to be formally organized.
- A distinction is drawn between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
- A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
- It is also interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
- For instance, the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a number of counter movements that attempted to block the goals of the women's movement, many of which were reform movements within conservative religions.
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- Aberle described four types of social movements based upon two characteristics: (1) who is the movement attempting to change and (2) how much change is being advocated.
- Social movements can be aimed at change on an individual level (e.g., AA) or change on a broader, group or even societal level (e.g., anti-globalization).
- Social movements can also advocate for minor changes (e.g., tougher restrictions on drunk driving; see MADD) or radical changes (e.g., prohibition).
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- For Tilly, social movements are a major vehicle for ordinary people's participation in public politics.
- He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups.
- Social movements are not eternal.
- In fact, one of the difficulties in studying social movements is that movement success is often ill-defined because the goals of a movement can change.
- Discuss the process and purpose of social movements, defined by Blumer, Mauss and Tilly
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- The mission of Hull House was to provide social and educational opportunities forworking class people in the surrounding neighborhood.
- In addition to making available services and cultural opportunities for the largely immigrant population of the neighborhood, Hull House afforded an opportunity for young social workers to acquire training.
- In 1892, Addams published her thoughts on what has been described as "the three R's" of the settlement house movement: residence, research, and reform.
- These involved "[c]lose cooperation with the neighborhood people, scientific study of the causes of poverty and dependence, communication of [these] facts to the public, and persistent pressure for [legislative and social] reform..."
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- The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy), which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm .
- Secondly, these movements are significantly different from previous social movements of the industrial economy.
- The most noticeable feature of new social movements is that they are primarily social and cultural and only secondarily, if at all, political.
- Hence, new social movements are understood as "new," because they are first and foremost social, unlike older movements which mostly have an economic basis.
- The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy), which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm.