390sp17 week 2

1. Global Social Movements
What is a Social Movement?
Week 2
February 1, 2017

2. Social Justice Issues under Trump?
What are social,
political, and economic
issues that activists and
organizers will be (and
already are) responding
to?

3. Four Stages of Social Movements

4. Four Stages of Social Movements
Why do social movements emerge?

5. Four Stages of Social Movements
Why do social movements emerge?
● persistence of social problems or inequalities

6. Four Stages of Social Movements
Why do social movements emerge?
● persistence of social problems or inequalities
● emerging consensus that these problems or
inequalities are unjust

7. Four Stages of Social Movements
Why do social movements emerge?
● persistence of social problems or inequalities
● emerging consensus that these problems or
inequalities are unjust
● failure of available mechanisms to produce
change

8. Four Stages of Social Movements
According to the article, what are the four
stages of social movements?

9. Four Stages of Social Movements
According to the article, what are the four
stages of social movements?
1. Emergence
2. Coalescence (or popular stage)
3. Bureaucratization (or formalization)
4. Decline

14. Moving Politics, by Deborah Gould

15. Moving Politics, by Deborah Gould
What is the central question of
the chapter you read?

16. Moving Politics, by Deborah Gould
What is the central question of
the chapter you read?
Why did militant AIDS
activism (in the form of ACT
UP) emerge in 1987?

17. Bowers v. Hardwick
1986 US Supreme Court decision that held up the
constitutionality of Georgia’s anti-sodomy laws, which
criminalized consensual sex in private between
homosexuals.

18. Bowers v. Hardwick
1986 US Supreme Court decision that held up the
constitutionality of Georgia’s anti-sodomy laws, which
criminalized consensual sex in private between
homosexuals.
How did gay and lesbian people respond to this ruling?

19. Moral Shock
Gould draws from the work of James Jasper and his
concept of “moral shock”:
“when an unexpected event or piece of information
raises such a sense of outrage in a person that she
becomes inclined toward political action” (Jasper
1997)

20. Moral Shock
Gould argues that militant political action is not the
inevitable result of a moral shock.
What other factors played a role?

21. Moral Shock
What does Gould argue was the result of the combined
effects of the moral shock of Bowers v. Hardwick and
these other factors?

22. Moral Shock
What does Gould argue was the result of the combined
effects of the moral shock of Bowers v. Hardwick and
these other factors?
There was a shift in the emotional landscape and
corresponding orientations to the state, from
shame/compliance to anger/militancy.

23. Anger and Militancy
Gould discusses the “genocide framework” for
understanding AIDS. How does this support the
argument of a shifting emotional landscape?

24. Anger and Militancy
Not everyone was comfortable with this shift to anger
and militancy. How does the example of GLAAD
illustrate this?

25. GLAAD and the NPIC
NPIC: nonprofit industrial complex

26. GLAAD and the NPIC
NPIC: nonprofit industrial complex
“In retrospect, there are indications that, from the
beginning, GLAAD leaders were more oriented toward
institution-building than confrontational activism…. [O]ne
leader of the group saw ‘the immediate task’ for the new
organization as being ‘to incorporate and raise funds to
get the organization on permanent footing’” (Gould 160).