What You Should Know up to This Point

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW UP TO THIS POINT (Sept 5, 2003):

1. Definitions of social movements

2. Goals, strategies, & stages of movements

3. Theories of social movements: material, functionalism, burkean, interpretive systems approach

4. How do we analyze rhetoric? (hint: history & D-I-E)

5. What are the rhetorical requirements, problems and strategies of movements (Simons)

6. What are the functions of movements?

7. What type of leadership styles exist with movements?

8. What is legitimacy and legitimization crisis?

9. Life cycle of movements

10. Methods the established order uses to resist movements (including divide & conquer)

11. What is ego-function?

12. What is diatribe?

13. What is semiotics/semiology?

14. sign = signifier + signified (know what this means!) & how it relates to rhetoric/social movements

15. How do we analyze a movement rhetorically?

a. select rhetorical texts

b. gauge the adherence of the rhetoric

i. usefulness

ii. carefulness

16. What's the difference between phenomenon vs. meaning? (i.e., McGee)

***Note:

1. You should know the above areas of knowledge generally. You should not focus on details of different types of movements, the scholars we've mentioned, or the particularities of each of these concepts. You should be familiar with these ideas in a way that you can converse about them, write about them, and show relationships among them.

2. You should be particularly aware of relationships among these ideas. In other words, you should be able to compare, contrast, explain strengths and weaknesses, etc., amongst these difference concepts.