Sociology 492P - S-CivilResistance&SocialChange
Fall
2026
01
4.00
Stellan Vinthagen
M W 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
19963
Machmer Hall room W-15
vinthagen@soc.umass.edu
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