Lp6 Assignment: Social Movement: What Are You Passionate About?

The Occupy Wall Street social movement Summary of MovementAn international social-political movement Objective of expressing opposition to social and economic inequality Advance of social-economic justiceOverarching objective is economic justice Key Members/PlayersNo leadership hierarchy Decisions made by the New York City General Assembly. Adbusters an anti-consumerism groupJed Brandt a journalist who spearheaded a fundraising drivePatrick Brunner who appeared as the movement’s point man in mainstream media DC37 the largest municipal employees union in New YorkDavid Graeber and Richard Ianucci president of New York State United Teachers union Initiation, Impetus and ResistanceTo protest concentration of wealth in one groupManipulation of the global financial system and large corporationsDisproportionately distribution of economic benefit Success of MovementDid not succeed in the initial objectiveSplintered and regrouped into a variety of focus groupsSucceeded in highlighting income inequality Enlightened society Application of sociological perspectivesConflict theory appliesSociety is in a state of continuing conflictSociety is in a state of competition for limited resourcesThe world order is perpetuated by power and domination