SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTIVITY SHEET

Copy and paste this activity sheet to your own word document. Next, fill in the appropriate information for the questions and tables on your particular social movement.

Once completed, erase all italicized sections and turn in a copy. Do not forget to save your work. You will be graded on content and how well you follow the directions.

Social Movement being studied:

Name:

 

It is a type of social movement.

It is this type of social movement because ….

A social movement has three characteristics. Examples that support this being a social movement are:

Characteristic

Example

Long duration

 

Highly structured organization with formally recognized leaders

 

A deliberate attempt to institute societal change.

 

 

The Life Cycle of the Movement went as follows:

Stage

Important Events within this stage

Agitation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legitimation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bureaucrazation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institutionalization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reason(s) this social movement existed ……

This is an example of a …. theory [choose either deprivation (absolute or relative) or resource mobilization]. It is this kind of theory for my movement because ………

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Place your resources below. Besides the web address, do include the title of the site, author (if available), date & time that you got your information.

 

Activity 1 - Collective Behavior Stories | Activity 2 - How Tolerant Should U.S. Laws Be of Cultural Practices | Activity 3 - Social Movements | Activity 4 - Measuring Population Change (in class handout) | Activity 5 - Lesotho & Basotho Meet: Cross-Cultural Understanding | Activity 6 - Sustainable Universe Plan | Search Engines & Sociology Links

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