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SOC390: Movements for Change |
What are social movements? How do they survive? How important are they to the dynamics of social change? This course explores an exciting world of protesters and picketers, contentious radicals and militant conservatives. It has three aims. First, to introduce students to the most important thinkers who have tried to understand and interpret contemporary social movements. Second, to examine how social movements negotiate key political tensions, such as the conflicts between organisation and democracy, and between violence and non-violence. Third, to ponder emergent trends in social-movement activism. The unit ranges over Australian and international campaigns, and between the distant past and the possible future.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
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D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
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| Staff Contact: |
Dr Scalmer |
| Prerequisites: |
6cp in sociology at 200 level or permission of Dean of Division
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| Unit Designations: |
Social Science
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Graded
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| Offered By: |
Department of Sociology |
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