1. What is the difference between a status movement and a class movement? Outline how status discontent was used by some theorists to explain social movement participation. In answering this question, the researcher must consider the definitions of both status and class from an economic, social and historical point of view. Other questions that must be answered vary from where does power lie in social circles? What impact did industrialism have upon the class structure and …showed first 75 words of 1601 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1601 total…closer together than ever before. Today anyone with a satellite dish, personal computer or fax machine can stay abreast of political events, often as they happen. Second, as a consequence of new technology as well as the emerging global economy, social movements are now uniting people throughout the entire world. With the realisation that many problems are global in scope has come the understanding that they can be effectively addressed only on an international scale.