The question i will be pursuing for my research is "Who is at teh roote of a social movement, the government or the people?" I chose this topic because when brought up in class it truly interested me. I decided I wanted to find out more about it for myself. I plan to research whether it is the efforts of activits and/ or lobbyists that essentially cause change or does the goverment choose to change when they feel it to be convenient?
Sources: "A Reconceptualization of the Dynamics of Social Movement Development" by Harry H. Hiller, this article appears to address the topic I am looking at in a similar but not exactly same view. I wanted to start by first researching how a social movement actually occurss. Hiller breaks it down into stages that a movemnt usually goes through in its life span. While reading this article I realized I would have to research specific movements to use examples throughout my paper. I plan to speak on a more general level and then narrow it down so I can focus on a few examples.
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