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Micheal Sweeney 12/13/2020 SOC2000 Prof. Guido FTC Orlando Social Movements and Social Change I chose to research the Black Lives Matter movement. In my own words, I believe that the Black Lives Matter movement is an organization that is against police brutality and racial Social Movements and Social Change 2 injustices that black people face in America every day. This was created by black people, for black people. BLM is advocating for social,

racial, and economic change for people of color. BLM is against senseless killings of unarmed people of color and organize peaceful protest across the country to combat this. Brown, castile, Marthin, Taylor, and most recently Floyd are among many black victims of racially motivated killings and BLM seeks the proper justice to be served. The actual definition of the Black Lives Matter Movement is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. The goal of this movement is to bring awareness to the discrimination and social injustices of black Americans. The name of the movement should speak for itself, Black Lives Matter. The problem is that black Americans don’t feel as though their lives matter. BLM wants the police brutality and racism to cease and reform the police departments, that way no black person must live in fear of their lives. A lot of the media portrays Black Lives Matter in a negative way by showing angry people yelling, fighting, and looting but this is just a tactic to dilute the true goal of BLM which is to have equal rights for black people on the entire gender spectrum. Smelser developed the added value theory based on the idea that certain conditions are necessary for the development of a social movement. There are six conditions that make up the added value theory. They are structural conduciveness, structural strain, spread of generalized belief, precipitating factors, mobilization of action, and social control factors. Structural conduciveness is when people become aware of a significant problem and could engage in a collective action. When analyzing this theory as it relates to the BLM movement, structural Social Movements and Social Change 3 conduciveness is when most African Americans are aware that there is a problem going on and have an idea of what the root of the problem may be and ultimately start to plan a course of action. Structural strain is when a society or community is unable to meet people’s expectations that something should be done about a problem. In relation to the Black Lives Matter movement, this condition tells me that before the BLM movement people were growing frustrated with the society in which they live. The frustrations and growing tensions are because of some unjust killing or problems that happened involving an African American and that their communities have failed them, which in turn causes for the development of a social movement. Spread of a generalized belief is needed for a movement to develop and there must be a clear statement of the problem and a shared view of its causes, effects, and possible solutions. This means for BLM to initiate its fight for social change, there must be clear message stating the problem, the people who are held to blame, and the potential solution. There must be clear message that everyone can relate too and understand. Precipitating factors is basically the straw that broke the camel's back. If an unarmed black man is killed by a white police officer, and the police officer gets off with very minimal charges this will enforce the generalized belief that black lives indeed do not matter. Mobilization for action is when leaders emerge to organize

others and give them a sense of direction. This step speaks for itself; a leader just steps up to lead the movement on behalf of all the people. Social control factors are people like law enforcements officials, political leaders and other high authority figures that have failed society. If the government fails to have social control over a particular issue, a social movement is most likely to develop due to high rising tensions. References: https://blacklivesmatter.com/, https://www.globalcitizen.org/es/content/allblack-lives-matter-global-goals/, Kendall, D. E. (2018). Sociology in our times: The essentials (11th ed.). Cengage Learning.

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