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.