Towards an Understanding of Social Movements

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Udemy

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₹ 449 799

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

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₹ 449  ₹799
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Udemy

The syllabus

Power and Politics

  • Definition of Social Movement
  • Please discuss the most basic qualities of social movements.
  • What is Power?
  • Please analyze Marxian and Weberian notions of power briefly.
  • Foucault and Power
  • Please describe disciplinary power and biopolitics.
  • Authoritarianism and Democracy
  • What are differences of democracy and authoritarianism.
  • Democracy
  • Participatory Democracy
  • Please compare participatory and representative democracy briefly.
  • Representative Democracy

Democracy and Governance

  • Brief Review of Previous Lecture
  • History of Democracy
  • Please describe the origins of democracy.
  • Why Democracy?
  • Why idea of democracy became so popular in the 20th century?
  • Global Governance
  • Please discuss the origins of global governance?
  • Social Revolution
  • Please describe social, political and cultural revolution respectively.

Origins of Social Movement

  • Brief Review of Previous Lecture
  • Definitions of Social Movement
  • Please describe social movement briefly.
  • Marxian Class Analysis in Modern Society
  • Please explain Marxian notions of class and social revolution.
  • Weberian Notions of Class in Modern Society
  • Please explain Weberian notions of status, party and prestige.
  • The Rise of Global Capitalism
  • Please explain the origins modern world-system.

Inequality and Social Movements

  • Brief Review of Previous Lecture
  • GDP, PPP, HDI and Measuring Inequality
  • Please explain these concepts: GDP, PPP, and HDI.
  • Global Inequality and Global Stratification
  • Please discuss the origins of global stratification in modern world.
  • Basic Features of Low, Middle and High Income Countries
  • Please classify the basic features of low, middle and high income countries.
  • Theories of Development
  • Please explain theory of modernization dependency school and world-system theory

Theoretical Signs of New Social Movements

  • Brief Review of Previous Lecture
  • Theory of Collective Action
  • Please explain “collective action” briefly.
  • The Birth of Welfare State
  • Please discuss the conditions for the emergence of “Welfare State”.
  • Changing Nature of Politics After Welfare State
  • Please discuss the effects of “Welfare State” on working class movement.
  • Welfare State and New Social Movements
  • Please explain the concepts of moral left and socio-economic left briefly.
  • Social Movemets and Neoliberal Revolution
  • Please explain the concept of neoliberalism.

Political Process and Social Movements

  • Brief Introduction to Lecture
  • Political Process and Opportunity Structures
  • Political Process and Collective Actors
  • Political Process and Conflict
  • Changing Nature of Conflict
  • The Evolution of Political Process
  • Please explain “Political Process” and “Opportunity Structures”.
  • Political Process and Network Structures
  • Please explain the role of “Network Structures” in political process

Social Movement and Framing

  • Brief Introduction to Lecture
  • Why Global Justice Movement?
  • What is Global Justice Movement?
  • Interpretative Frames and Schemas
  • Please explain “Interpretative Frames” and “Schemas” concisely.
  • Frame and Master Frame
  • Please discuss the differences between frame and master frame.
  • Diagnosis and Prognosis
  • Frame, Master Frame and Ideology
  • What is the difference of ideology compared to frame and master frame.

Social Movement and Subjectivity

  • Frame, Master Frame and Ideology
  • Individual and Identity Formation
  • Please discuss the approaches regarding identity formation
  • Mass Society and Identity Formation
  • Please explain the concept of mass society
  • Economic Change and Identity Formation
  • Closing Remarks

Protest, Social Movements Organization and Policing

  • Brief Introduction to Lecture
  • Definition of Social Movement Organizations
  • Please describe “Social Movement Organizations” briefly.
  • Types of Social Movement Organizations
  • What are the types of “Social Movement Organizations”?
  • Protest and Social Movement Organizations
  • Please describe the concept of protest in a detailed manner.
  • What is policing and what might be some policing technics?

Arab Spring

  • Brief Introduction to Lecture
  • What Triggered Protests?
  • Please discuss the reasons of the protest in social movements
  • Tunisian Revolution I
  • Tunisian Revolution II
  • Egyptian Revolution I
  • Egyptian Revolution II
  • What might be the reasons for Arab Spring?
  • Arab Spring: Libya and Yemen
  • Arab Spring: Syria
  • Story of Iran I
  • Story of Iran II

Socio - Economic Situation in Mena Region

  • Economic Statistics of the MENA Region I
  • Economic Statistics of the MENA Region II
  • Economic Statistics of the MENA Region III
  • Please discuss the reasons of social and economic unrest in MENA region.
  • Unemployment and Class in MENA I
  • Factors and Consequences: Arab Spring in MENA I
  • Factors and Consequences: Arab Spring in MENA II

Global Social Movements

  • Definition and Types of Social Movements
  • Examples of Global Social Movements I
  • Examples of Global Social Movements II
  • Please discuss the reasons for the emergence of global social movements.
  • Occupy Wall Street I
  • Occupy Wall Street II
  • After Occupy
  • Social Movement Theory
  • Idea of Global Social Movement
  • An example of Environmentalist Movement
  • Brief Summary of Occupy Wall Street and Social Movements

Identity and Participation in Global Social Movements

  • Issue of the Collective Identity
  • Extension of the Collective Identity
  • Case of Anti-Globalization Movement
  • Anti-Globalization and NGOs
  • Participating in a Global Social Movement I
  • Participating in a Global Social Movement II
  • Please discuss the cases of identity formation in global social movements.
  • Please discuss the role of participation and networks in global social movements

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