A government taskforce is reviewing four groups that have recently gained attention. Each group claims to be a ‘social movement’, but they differ in who they target and how much change they seek.
Group 1: The Quiet Roads Pledge runs workshops for learner drivers and asks participants to sign a pledge to stop using mobile phones while driving. The group measures success by the number of individuals who complete the program and report changed behaviour.
Group 2: New Life Fellowship is a tightly organised faith-based community that recruits people who feel ‘morally lost’. New members are expected to adopt a strict code of conduct, cut off some previous social ties and publicly renounce their former lifestyle.
Group 3: Fair Rent Now is a coalition of tenant organisations that campaigns for statewide caps on annual rent increases and expanded public housing funding. It uses petitions, media campaigns and meetings with MPs, and argues these changes would improve life for most renters without changing the political system.
Group 4: Decolonise Everything is a network that argues Australia’s political and legal institutions are fundamentally illegitimate and must be replaced with a new system based on Indigenous sovereignty. It calls for mass mobilisation and rejects ‘small policy fixes’ as inadequate.
The taskforce asks you to classify and evaluate these groups using the four types of social movements: alternative, redemptive, reformative and revolutionary.
b. Using the information provided, classify Groups 1–4 as alternative, redemptive, reformative or revolutionary. Justify each classification by explicitly linking it to both dimensions identified in part (a).
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In this unit, students explore the ways sociologists have thought about the idea of community and how various types of community are experienced. They examine the relationship between social movements and social change, including the nature, purpose, power, and outcomes of social movements.
Students investigate the sociological concept of power, the nature and purpose of social movements, types and stages of social movements, and how power is used by movements and their opposition. They evaluate the influence of social movements on social change, referencing Erica Chenoweth’s work, and analyse a specific social movement in detail.
alternative, redemptive, reformative and revolutionary types of social movements
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