Making Social Change

Making Social Change is a Social Science course taught by Stanley Warner.

This course requires instructor permission.

Course Description
How is social change accomplished? What theory of the state do we presuppose? To what extent do social movements such as civil rights, women's rights, the peace movement or the environmental movement operate within or without established political frameworks? Using the post World War II United States landscape, we will explore questions of violence or non-violence, incrementalism or revolution, centralism or decentralism, cooptation or boring from within. Students will research and present historical case studies as we seek another level of thinking about morally defensible and politically effective strategies for social change.