Lecture Outline

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Lecture Outline

• I. Social Movements
• A. Relative Deprivation Theory
• B. Resource Mobilization Theory
• C. Frame Alignment
• II. Globalization
• A. Overview
• B. Globalization, Labour and Transnational
  Communities

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Weighted Frequency of Strikes, Canada, 1946-98
Strikes/100,000 non-agricultural workers
1946

1998
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Percent of Non-Agricultural Workers Unionized,
Canada, 1946-98
Percent unionized
1946

1998
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Social Movements and Citizenship Rights

• Civil Citizenship
• Political Citizenship
• Social Citizenship
• Universal Citizenship
• - New social movements

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Global Structures

• we have no choice other than to think our way
  through the existence of global structures and
  relations of power. Such centres and relations
  of power now exist it is just that we do not
  theorize them, control them, understand them or
  even realize that they exist (Held 1995, pp.
  138-9).

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Interpretations of Globalization
Postindustrialization Albrow the spread and
posmodernization of global consciousness sin
ce about 1980
GLOBALIZATION
Giddens 20th century indus- Robertson 2,000
yrs. trialization modernization of
globalization result- ed in modernization