SOC 563: Global Social Movements

Course Description

Why do people rebel when they do? Why some succeed and others fail? And how do such collective actions change people’s lives and their societies? The course navigates through the ‘everyday resistance’, ‘social movements’, and ‘social revolutions’, human endeavors that have fundamentally transformed our modern societies. Going beyond the Eurocentric perspectives, the course takes a global outlook both conceptually and geographically to engage critically and productively with the sociology of resistance. 4 graduate hours. No professional credit.