Social Movements

• The Deprivation Theory

  Social movements are born when certain groups in a society feel that they are deprived of a good, service, or resource.
• Research Mobilization Theory 


  When individuals in a society have certain grievances, they may be able to mobilize necessary resources to alleviate those grievances
• Examples of Research mobilization theory

  The civil rights movement; MLK mobilized white people to protest in support.
• The Political Process Theory 


  treats social movements like political movements
• Structural Strain Theory 


  can be used to understand the birth and growth of the civil rights movement
• Resources in the resource mobilization theory

  Money, labor, social status, knowledge, political elites
• The New Social Movement Theory

  a combination of other theories
• The New Social Movement Theory focuses on issues pertaining to work-life balance that pertain to individual citizens.