SOC-3314: Social Movements
Description: The study of collective attempts to address social injustices and implement other social change in and across societies. Explores sociological and interdisciplinary conceptions of social movements and their relationships to society. Social movement emergence, development, engagement with opponents and authorities, and impact, as shaped by opportunity structures, mobilizing structures and processes, framing, collective identity, strategy and tactics, and other factors. How social movements oppose or promote inequality, oppression, or violence in the U.S. or elsewhere, at the local, national, and transnational level. Application of political process and other current social movement theories.
Pathways: 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 7 Identity & Equity in U.S., 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 9
Average GPA: 3.46 (A-)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 61.41%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.30%
| Dale W Wimberley | 2023 | 23.4% | 42.2% | 18.2% | 11.2% | 1.2% | 3.9% | 2.78 | 3 |
| Jeffrey A Stilley | 2023 | 80.0% | 17.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.9% | 0.0% | 3.70 | 1 |
| Kaitland M Byrd | 2021 | 90.2% | 5.1% | 3.1% | 0.4% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 3.82 | 5 |