Social Movements of the Sixties

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This paper examines how social movements come and go, but their after-effects frequently continue to shape the course of a society for a long time. In particular, it reviews the impact of the civil rights movement on campus-based student movements and politics during the 1960s in America and examines their respective contexts as social movements. Finally, it assesses the long-term implications for American society.

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"Deprivation, discontent, and frustration are frequently assumed to be sufficient causes for initiating or joining a social movement. The relationship is complex, however; for instance, there is little evidence that the most deprived segments of a population are the most likely to participate in social movements. The concept of relative deprivation has been used to explain the fact that persons who could be much worse off than they are but still feel deprived in comparison with even more fortunate groups often play a prominent part in social movements (Killian et al., 2002, s. 3). Anyone seeking to better understand the underlying social forces at work in these types of movements must recognize that the phenomenon is complex and the process convoluted."

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