After completing Chapter 18, you should be able to:
- Recognize and explain the limitations of the deterministic view of society.
- Discuss human beings' ability to, individually and collectively, cope with, adapt to, and change social structures.
- Identify and describe the three types of social movements and cite examples of each.
- Identify the stages in the life cycle of social movements and explain the changes movements go through at each stage.
- Compare and contrast the two case studies the authors present to demonstrate the emergence of social movements and the ways goals are defined and pursued.
- Understand the limitations of social movements and their implications.
