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ch. 15 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social movements | groups of individuals and organizations collectively committed to bringing about, or resisting, fundamental societal change in a systematic way |
| Relative deprivation | people’s perception that they lack the resources necessary to lead the kind of life they believe they deserve |
| Resource mobilization | the rational management of resources to accomplish a social movement’s organizational goals |
| Social change | shifts in how humans think and act within society that alter material, cognitive, and normative culture |
| Luddites | rebellious craftworkers in 19th-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the Industrial Revolution. |
| Social evolution | a theory of social change that holds that societies progress from simple to complex over time |
| equilibrium model | the theory that society’s natural tendency is toward social order, with change in one part of society counterbalanced by adjustments in others |
| vested interests | those who benefit most from the existing social, political, and economic structure |
| Personal sociology | recognizing the impact the positions we occupy have on who we are and how we think and act |
| Public sociology | the process of bringing the insights gained through sociological observation and analysis into the public sphere, thereby seeking to bring about positive social change |
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