Social movements 02.04.D2.EM.SM
1. Social movements: definition(s) and origins
2. Social movements and social change
3. Theories of social movements
4. Functions of social movements
5. “Old” and “new”
social movements
6. Collective action and collective identity
7. Forms and methods of action of social movements
8. Social movements and social organizations
9. Global Justice Movement: origins, specifics and role
10. “Solidarity” movement: origins, specifics and role
Supplementary literature
Course coordinators
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Learning outcomes
Student has extended knowledge concerning different types of political, cultural and social structures and institutions
Student demonstrates complex knowledge on socio-economical organization of the Westerm world in the period after WWII
Student comprehensively explains the processes and the concepts referrring to the cultural and political identification of the individual
Based on the advanced knowledge student comprehesively analyses and participates in the debate on economic, political and cultural transformations and their social consequences
Student can conduct advanced analysis and explain the behaviour of the man and the social groups in the public life in the context of the needs and interests of the individual and the group
Student is able to communicate in the social group and aim at realizing social and political goals at the individual and group level
Student is able to creatively discuss the essential social-political issues of the contemporary world
Student is determined to evaluate objectively and non-emotionally economic, political and social processes and undertake the effort of his/her own individual reacting to those processes
Student has the understanding of the values of the civic activity and is able to undertake initiatives in the reaction to the deficits in the functioning of the state and international community
Assessment criteria
Written exam; Multimedia presentation; Discussion
Lecture:
51% on the test
60% on the test
70% on the test
80% on the test
90% on the test
Exercises:
Attendance and presentation
Attendance, presentation, participation in the discussion
Attendance, good presentation, participation in the discussion
Attendance, good presentation, active participation in the discussion
Attendance, good presentation, very active participation in the discussion
Bibliography
D. Della Porta, M. Diani, Social movements. An Introduction, Blackwell Publishing 2006
J.M. Jaspers, Protest. A Cultural Introduction to Social Movements, Polity Press 2014
S. Staggenborg, Social Movements, Oxford University Press 2011
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