Date of Award
6-2016
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Social Responsibility: M.S.
First Advisor
Ajay Panicker
Second Advisor
Stephen Philion
Third Advisor
Jason Lindsay
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Abstract
Abstract
From the left, there seems to be too much emphasis placed on blaming the “free-market, and neo-liberalism” (Bricmont, 2006; McNally, 2002). By doing so, modern social movement avoids the real issue which is “capitalism” (Wood, 2003). Thus, there seems to be evidence that current social movement activity has done little more than reproduce the same tactics used post-1960s, and while their actions may have awakened certain sets of social consciousness, they have yielded little socio-structural change, due either to their irrational ideologies and strategies in response to social inequality or their rational attempt(s) to innovate them. By taking this stance, global social movements may have centralized themselves into fixed spaces of contention where their most critical voices against neoliberalism only serves to inculcate the very system it is against.
Key Words: modern social movements, neo-liberalism, free market, capitalism, ideologies, social inequality.
Recommended Citation
Paul, Robbie A., "Recycling Historical Events and Outcomes: Is Another World Possible Through Social Movement Activity?" (2016). Culminating Projects in Social Responsibility. 6.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/socresp_etds/6
