Creating a Movemen

Creating a Movemen

Choose a current social movement: Occupy Wall Street movement, Black Lives Matter movement, the environmental movement, or the gender equality movement. Answer the following questions about the movement you have selected in one to two sentences each.

1. Which social movement did you choose, and what interests you about the movement?
2. How have you learned about this social movement (news articles, social media, social commentary, conversation with others, television news)?
3. What is the “big question” or inquiry that the movement is trying to answer?
4. What do you think has caused the movement to gain or lose momentum? How does this movement either directly or indirectly impact your day-to-day life? For example, if you are looking at the environmental movement, maybe you were directly impacted by a tax break for purchasing a new Prius or putting new energy-efficient windows in your home.

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Question 1

The gender equality movement is the selected for this analysis as it has changed so much about how people from different genders relate in the society. Earlier on women were inferior in all social activities including education, leadership, careers and many others. It is also interesting how this controversial aspect has experienced transformations over the past decades with equality being the key aim of the movements (Inglehart, Norris & Ronald, 2003).

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