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This pod was created for OpenStax College textbook Introduction to Sociology: Social Movements And Social Change ISBN 10: 1938168011 ISBN 13: 978-1-938168-01-7

This site has the World Social Change reports we prepared, reviews of main world demographic and political changes and data used to develop the reviews, and a review of theories of change. This site also links to free information about long term changes in political, economic and social systems.

FROM CSULA LIBRARY Persistence and Change in Rural Communities: A 50-year Follow-up to Six Classic Studies. (2002). Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CABI Pub.

FROM CSULA LIBRARY Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America. (2004). New York: Columbia University Press.

This site has the World Social Change reports we prepared, reviews of main world demographic and political changes and data used to develop the reviews, and a review of theories of change. This site also links to free information about long term changes in political, economic and social systems. This site links to theory, data, research, syllabi, history, and more.

The course introduces theoretical frameworks from legal and social movement theories as applied to court opinions, legislation, treaties, law-related articles, and policy-oriented materials and focuses on the impact of the relationship between courts and grassroots activism on current issues like trade, environmental regulation, and human rights enforcement. Students examine case studies of institutional processes including the World Trade Organization and the World Bank from key countries like the US and India.

This course seeks to provide students with a general understanding of the form of collective action known as the social movement. Our task will be guided by the close examination of several twentieth century social movements in the United States. We will read about the U.S. civil rights, the unemployed workers', welfare rights, pro-choice / pro-life and gay rights movements. We will compare and contrast certain of these movements with their counterparts in other countries. For all, we will identify the reasons for their successes and failures.

This site offers insight into what action research is and also provides an intoductory guide to the literature. Action research is a form of collective self-reflective enquiry undertaken by participants in social situations in order to improve the rationality and justice of their own social or educational practices, as well as their understanding of those practices and the situations in which the practices are carried out… The approach is only action research when it is collaborative, though it is important to realize that action research of the group is achieved through the critically examined action of individual group members.