The Evolution of SOCIAL MOVEMENTS:
1922: European Social Movements. Professor Davis. A review and estimate of post-war social and industrial conditions in Russia, England, and Germany as contrasted with America.
1927: Social Ideas and Problems in Modern Literature. Professor Bowen. This course will aim to interpret present day social movements and problems as expressed in the most important works of European and American novelists and dramatists. Special attention will be given to the most significant of the post-war writers.
1939: Conflicts in Modern Civilization. Professor Bowen. This course aims attempt to describe and interpret the cultural forces and interests in modern civilization which make for individual, group, class, race and national conflicts and wars. In this course of the work modern movements like Democracy, Nationalism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism will be analyzed and criticized. The respective philosophies, ideals, objectives, tactics, and activities of these varied movements will be explained from the point of view of Sociology.
1970: Social Revolution: World Wide Social Change in the Twentieth Century. Professor Eldredge. The social, psychological, and historical factors in revolutionary nationalism are analyzed and contemporary theories of social change, in both its violent and nonviolent forms, are evaluated. Concrete cases of revolutionary nationalist movements, both in the West and in non-Western areas (Nazi Germany, Red China, etc.), are used to illustrate and test theory. Finally, the implications for Western society of a world of rapidly changing economic, political, and social institutions are examined.
2018: Social Movements. Professor Dixon. Social movements are collective attempts to promote or resist social change, from the way people live their lives, to how governments govern, to how economic systems distribute rewards. This course examines why and when social movements come about, the organizations and strategies they adopt, and the circumstances in which they are most impactful. We explore these issues by researching individual political movements and engaging larger theoretical explanations for their development.