POS 328 Soc Movemnts,Power,& the State

This course is designed to trace the rise of the nation-state, the national social movement, and the increasing visibility of transnational activism. There will be an analysis of what conditions are ripe for the rise of collective action, why people choose to participate in social movements (or fail to do so), why certain groups or claims tend to be attached to certain kinds of tactics and tropes, what forms of organization do movements adopt, and what types of goals do movements seek? Does any of this change with greater numbers of transnational organizations against which increasingly transnational claims can be made? In other words, might transnational activism ultimately supplant the national social movement? Fulfills writing-intensive requirement. Prerequisite: POS 112 and/or POS 142 (US) (PT)