Sociology 492P - S-CivilResistance&SocialChange
Fall
2019
01
4.00
Stellan Vinthagen
M W 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
33004
Machmer Hall room W-22
vinthagen@soc.umass.edu
32288
This course focus on what has variously been called "nonviolent direct action," "people power," "unarmed insurrection," or "color revolution." It applies sociological perspectives on the "resistance" that is played out in political and noninstitutional mobilizations: its causes, effects and dynamics. In what way does organized, strategic and mass mobilized popular resistance bring about change, or reproduce domination?
100-level SOCIOL course Meets with Psych 492P
This course deals with campaigns of ?nonviolent direct action,? ?people power,? ?unarmed insurrection,? or ?color revolutions,? and apply sociological perspectives to the causes, effects, and dynamics of resistance in political and non-institutional resistance mobilizations. We focus on how organized, strategic, and mass-mobilized popular resistance sometimes brings about significant social change, while recognizing how resistance also spawn its own forms of domination. We use movies with case examples from different continents of the world, dealing with very different issues, which we then analyze together. The main student assignment is to write a paper that utilize an analytical framework provided at the course on one campaign of your own choice (through the Swarthmore Global Nonviolent Action Database).
This course deals with campaigns of ?nonviolent direct action,? ?people power,? ?unarmed insurrection,? or ?color revolutions,? and apply sociological perspectives to the causes, effects, and dynamics of resistance in political and non-institutional resistance mobilizations. We focus on how organized, strategic, and mass-mobilized popular resistance sometimes brings about significant social change, while recognizing how resistance also spawn its own forms of domination. We use movies with case examples from different continents of the world, dealing with very different issues, which we then analyze together. The main student assignment is to write a paper that utilize an analytical framework provided at the course on one campaign of your own choice (through the Swarthmore Global Nonviolent Action Database).