GRADUATE SPECIALITY AREA – Social Movements

WHY STUDY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?

Sociologists study social movements to understand how collective action can transform social order, cultural values and ideologies, economic relations, and social hierarchies. Professional sociologists examine strategies used to establish connections among organizers and explore how people and ideas migrate, generating transnational networks.

Oklahoma State University faculty interests include environmental movements, organizational networks, anti-environmentalism as a counter-movement, group processes, social networks, and political sociology.

FACULTY WITHIN THIS SPECIALITY AREA:

• DR. DANIEL ALVORD
• DR. JONATHAN COLEY
• DR. ALEXANDER DIAMOND
• DR. ANDREW FULLERTON
• DR. TAMARA MIX
• DR. JACOB MWITA
  

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS GRADUATE COURSES:

• * SOC 5323: SEMINAR ON COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS*
• SOC 5473: SEMINAR ON THE CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
• SOC 5493: SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
• SOC 5950: ADVANCED STUDIES IN
• SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• SOC 5990: ADVANCED TOPICS IN SOCIOLOGY

*REQUIRED COURSE