School Of Social Sciences And PsychologyCommunity and Social MovementsWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101347.2
Discipline: SOCIOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Foundation Sociology units
Equivalent Units
B3965 - Community and Communal Action
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 80 credit points OR completion of 101336 - Introduction to Sociology.
About this Unit
There has been a notable decline of class-based politics and welfarism in the last three decades. Both the industrialised and developing nations have been characterised by a rise of new social movements. These have focused on social justice and inequality in relation to such matters as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, the environment, regionalism and globalization. More recently, there has been an expansion of neo-racist, nationalistic and fundamentalist movements concerned with ensuring traditional patterns of social dominance. Analyses and critiques of these various social movements regard their rise and expansion as symptomatic of the uncertain forms of social identity and community that now characterise post-industrial and globalizing societies.