My Sources

All of my sources may not have been included in my annotations. I used the Powerpoints on Moodle as my sources and I used Google for images.

Black Power Movement

After the decline of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power [social] Movement emerged. A social movement is change sociologically organized and intended, oftentimes organized. They are continuous, include a large scale of people, organized, collective, there is action exerted, and it addresses social change (Week 15 Lecture Notes). All social movements must have a shared ideology, access to resources, social organization, collective identification, and political opportunity structure. The Black Power Movement was a mixture between a counter movement and a revolutionary movement.

Making a Social Change in 2011

In the news recently, there has been a lot of coverage of the social change occurring in Egypt with the government. There was a social change that was made and it had a great deal of impact to the country. Social change can happen in five different ways. It can happen from environmental pressure, population pressures, technological and cultural innovation, diffusion of technology and culture, and social and organizational conflict. In the case of Egypt, there was a mixture of all five ways that change can happen.

Civil Rights Movement

Historically, Blacks were discriminated against since they were kidnapped and brought to America from Africa. In the 1960's, the Civil Rights Movement emerged to advance the rank of Blacks in America and to give them the chance to become first class citizens, like Whites. With the help of Civil Rights leaders like Charles Hamilton Houston, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, Blacks gained a status similar to their White counterparts. They had created a social change. According to lecture, change in societies is inevitable and can be experienced as anomic.  Though change may take on the same characteristics as other social change movements, the depth and velocity of the change differs.

Immigrants

In 2011, when most Americans say immigrant, they automatically think of people of Hispanic/Latino descent. Yet, there are immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds. Even Justin Bieber is an immigrant. Because America is considered a big melting pot of people, most people's roots can be traced back to another country-making them an immigrant of some sort.  There are laws against illegal immigrants and people constantly rant and rave about "protecting our borders". These people do not sympathize with the push-pull factors that cause people to illegally come into the U.S. In the documentary, Which Way Home, some of the young boys left their native countries because of their family life. Others left to seek new opportunities and to seek jobs to support their families back home.

Birth Cohorts

Birth Cohorts affect individuals through the cohort effect and the period effect. The cohort effect is likely to experience similar life course events at roughly the same time. For example, if a young woman is about to graduate high school and she is about to give birth to her firstborn. The period effect focused more on common history. Everybody that was alive for the 9/11 terrorist attacks was affected by this event. More recently, people that were alive in 2008 were alive to witness America's first mixed race president take office.

The Millennium Generation

The Millennium Generation was born between the 1980's and the late 1990's. This group is the most ethnically diverse and they are most likely to grow up in a nontraditional family. They also are very connected to the media.The problem with this generation is their reliance on technology. For example, in some classrooms, students do not take physical notes, instead, they take notes on their iPads and laptop computers. Socially, people interact indirectly and use technology to interact. For example, text messaging or social networking on sites like Facebook and Twitter.