Introduction to Sociology II — Social Movements (Revision 8)
Status:
Open
Delivery mode:
Individualized study online with Video component (Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component). Delivered via Brightspace.
Sociology 288 is designed to introduce students to the study of social movements, with a practical focus on the tools and techniques useful for successful social-movement organization. Sociology 288 and its companion course Sociology 287 provide a full-year introduction to the study of sociology at the university level.
Outline
SOCI 288 comprises the following six units.
Unit 1: A Rock-and-Roll Introduction to Social Movements
Unit 2: Ideas
Unit 3: Ideology
Unit 4: Competition and the Manufacture of Consent
Unit 5: Global Mirrors and Local Issues
Unit 6: Final Paper and What You Have Learned Assignment
Learning outcomes
Understand the significance of ideas, ideology, and communication to the development, establishment, and success or failure of social movement.
Understand what it means to “manufacture consent.”
Understand the detrimental impact of ideologies of competition on the formation of local, national, and global social movements.
Explain the concept of “cooperative” learning and apply this concept to your upbringing.
Be able to analyze any social movement in order to determine its source, impact, and the factors leading to its success or failure.
Evaluation
To receive credit for SOCI 288, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least a D (50 percent). You must submit all the course assignments and complete them to the satisfaction of your tutor. Note that there is no final exam in this course, only a final assignment. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
Activity
Weight
Five Unit Assignments (Units 1–5)
50%
Research Paper Proposal
5%
Research Paper
10%
Final Assignment
20%
Self-Reflection: What You Have Learned
15%
Total
100%
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University’s online Calendar.
Materials
Bainbridge, C. (Dir.). (2017). Rumble: The Indians who rocked the world. Montreal: Rezolution Pictures. (Audio/Video)
Collier Hillstrom, L. (2019). The #me too movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. (Print)
Kohn, A. (1992). No contest: The case against competition (rev. ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (Print)
Kralovec, E., & Buell, J. (2000). The end of homework: How homework disrupts families, overburdens children, and limits learning. Boston: Beacon Press. (Print)
Miller, D., & Dinan, W. (2008). A century of spin: How public relations became the cutting edge of corporate power. London: Pluto Press. (Print)
Quinn, C. D. (Dir.). (2017). Eating animals. Big Star Pictures. (Audio/Video)
Shiva, V. (2000). Stolen harvest: The hijacking of the global food supply. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. (eBook)
Other Materials
SOCI 288 presents an online Study Guide and makes extensive use of a Digital Reading Room.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized study counterparts.