Causes and consequences of American social movements. Considers theoretical perspectives. Topics may include agrarian populism, labor movement, civil rights movement, the women's movement, and identity politics. Berk, Novkov.
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Social movements usually reject regular channels of political influence in favor of direct action. Whether they succeed or fail, they rarely leave politics unchanged. In the United States, direct action is especially important because our Constitution tends to limit mass participation through regular channels. This course focuses on two questions. First, how did our political system shape the labor movement differently in the United States than in other advanced industrial democracies? Second, how were the ?new social movements? that emerged in the 1960s and after different from the movements that came before them; have they improved or hurt American society and politics?
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