INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY

August 10 th

Alonso Octavio Aravena Mendez

Baylor University
PSA for Incoming
Assignments
Research Idea Paper is due today,
August 10th

Final Exam is due on August 11th

 A look at Quizzes 3, 4 and 5

Social Movements

Main characteristics

Examples of Social Movements

Stages of Social Movements

 Social
Movements
 “Complex, informal, and
challenging collectively
oriented actions with
sustained undular
lifecycles, dynamic focus
and organic scopes”
 Main SM Aspects
• Multiple People/Actors: members, sympathizers,
allies, opponents
• Acting together: Collective actions, more or less
public and more or less structured
• Over an extended period of time: relative to the
subjects and the observer
• With Common objectives: shared goals, mostly
public, mostly to benefit their members
• For social change: the change may be desired to
occur in the current status quo, or in the direction
or orientation of society
Main SM Theories
• Deprivation Theory
• Resource Mobilization
• Structural Strain
• New Social Movement
• Culture Theory
Identity, the Iron
Law of Oligarchy
and Equity
MAS Movement in Bolivia
MAS Movement in Bolivia
Ethnic Groups in Bolivia
Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous
Territory (Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional
Isiboro Secure, TIPNIS)
NO to the highway that
crosses the indigenous
territories of the TIPNIS.
YES TO INTEGRATION,
BUT NOT BY HURTING
MOTHER EARTH

“The rights of the earth

are more important
than the rights of Man”
(Evo Morales)
MAS Movement in
Bolivia
 Reaction?

https://eldeber.com.bo/bolivia/a-7-anos-de-chaparina-
indigenas-haran-un-acto-de-desagravio_39297
MAS Movement in
Bolivia
Movements
are actions
not things
Movement IS
ENERGY
 Social Movements
• Can you be a Social Movement even if you do not
classify yourself as such?

• https://texassecede.com/faq.php#whysell

• Why do Social Movements adapt and morph more

than Civil Society Organizations, Markets and
Governments?
• The importance of who is the agent
• The importance of what is the goal
 Goals

Private Public

Private 1.- 3.-

Agents
Public 2.- 4.-
 Differences between
SMs and CSOs
FORMAL OR INFORMAL INTERNAL STRUCTURE?

EXTERNALLY REGULATED OR UNREGULATED?

HIERARCHICAL OR HORIZONTAL LEADERSHIP?

FREE OR BINDING MEMBERSHIP?

 “Complex, informal, and
challenging collectively
oriented actions with
sustained undular
lifecycles, dynamic focus
and organic scopes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9yU
5seyZo&ab_channel=AoNorteCineclube
Mil Tambores
Mil Tambores
Mil Tambores
Mil Tambores
STAGES OF SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS
Emergence
Coalescence
Bureaucratization
Decline
 Abeyance

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117752