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Week 11 & 12 Assignment 2

Week 11 & 12 Assignment 2

Q McClain-Tauber - CHAPTER 12 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: What we will Learn from This Chapter • Learn about the concepts undergirding social movements in the United States. • Explore the causes of success and failure of American social movements. • Contrast social movements and political activism. • The Latest edition click, mcclain5e_lectureppt_ch12.pptx Download mcclain5e_lectureppt_ch12.pptx 1. What is a social movement? Name two social movements from the twentieth century in the United • Social movement: A sustained challenge to those in power….. by?? Examples: Successful Movements as listed in McClain 2. What are shared grievances and how do they factor into social movements? • Shared grievances: include (national, state, or local) and [complaints] in the sentence. The how? it brings people together to do what? 3. Name and identify three conditions that give rise to social movements? 4. Define catalytic leadership and explain its importance to social movements 5. Why is it necessary to have a supportive environment to have a successful social movement? • For example, public opinion??? pressure on political figures?? • NPR Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam, click, Researchers Examine The Psychology Of Protest Movements Links to an external site. Successful Movement, Suffrage Notes • click section text, mclain women movement 1st wave.pdf Download mclain women movement 1st wave.pdf • click section text, mcclain women's movement sufferage 2nd_3rd waves.pdfDownload mcclain women's movement sufferage 2nd_3rd waves.pdf • How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkFXPblLpULinks to an external site. 6. Identify four achievements of the labor movement? 7. Which movement led to the development of the EPA and OSHA? When did this occur? What do these acronyms stand for? The environmental movement in the 1970s. 8. What is environmental racism? • discrimination in the enforcement of environmental laws…what type of laws? • 9. Identify three shared grievances of the LGBT movement. • Lack of protection by the law and law enforcement from violence. • Name two specific examples??? • 10. What factors contribute to the decline of social movements? • changes in public opinion....And?? • 11. Factors that contribute to social movement failures, such as Broad or unrealistic goals. Name two more factors? 12. March for Our Lives, Black Lives Matter, and the Tea Party are all examples of what concept? Will they become social movements? • What was the catalyst for the development of March for Our Lives? What is one of the main goals of March for Our Lives? Amend: The Fight for America | Episode 4 | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LysT1ukjYLinks to an external site. Rights fight Timeline

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1. Social movement is a sustained challenge to those in power put forth by individuals acting in concert with others. Examples are civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. 2. A shared grievance is the complaints against the political system whether it be national or state by a group of people who generally agree on the causes of the complaints. This is the first step of a social movement. 3. Shared grievance, catalyst, and supportive environment. 4. Catalytic leadership can help create a social movement when the leaders highlight and draw on deep-rooted feelings of injustice.