TY - JOUR AU - Calderon, Jose PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - RURAL AND URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/rural-and-urban-social-movements SP - AB - This course examines "social movements," as part of people’s collective efforts to create changes in society: their emergence, the process of their formation, and the varied strategies for their mobilization. Although the class will primarily focus on the Chicano Student, Labor and Civil Rights Movements; the theories; readings; and activities are meant to apply to other social movements as well. There are various connecting links to the class: 1. Each student is responsible for participating in a specific social movement, gathering literature on it, and applying general theories to the specific case selected 2. Each student is expected to draw practical experience from participating in a Cesar Chavez memorial and a UFW Alternative Spring Break 3. The student’s participation in a specific social movement and the memorial/alternative spring break should run parallel to the "generalizing thread" of readings, theories, and activities in the classroom ER -