SOAN 240 | Social Movements

This course examines major social movements in terms of their forms, aims, and implications, as well as the research and theories deployed to make sense of them. In particular it explores these movements' recruitment and organizational tactics, resource mobilization, strategy, and effects on public policy. It also analyzes their relation to political institutions, socioeconomic structures, and cultural formations, including mass media and official agencies. The course will focus on select movements which may include civil rights, feminist, environmental, labor, right-wing, and postcolonial/Global South politics.