Social Movements - Purposeful, organized groups striving to work toward a common goal.
Technology - Many social movements are localized in an attempt to improve the situation for a specific cause. Technology has created a situation where some movements can quickly move from one area to another. EX- Arab Spring, ISIS.
Effects of Social Movements - Major social movements can ripple through society and cause societal shifts. Civil Rights -racial, gender, age; Environmentalism consumers, courts, laws, business practices

• The big picture of why society is changing
• All aspects are important for a healthy society
• What social service is being served
• What to do if the need is met-dissolve or adapt After Polio was
“cured” they changed the focus to birth defects
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Interested in the creation and reproduction of inequality
• How does systematic inequality generate social movements
• Movements are inevitable- because those in power don’t voluntarily give it up
• As goals are met the movement refines its focus- Ex the NAACP started out as anti-lynching and now is more concerned with discrimination in other areas http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-tocross/video/racist-images-and-messages-in-jim-crow-era/