SOC 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Regimes, Resistance, and Repression

4 credits (Spring Term 2)

This sociology seminar will investigate how and why resistance emerges, develops, and succeeds or fails in different types of governments. Using a global and comparative lens, it will explain the structural and cultural factors that influence various forms of contention, from reformist social movements to insurrections as well as everyday forms of resistance. The empirical topics include the Arab Spring, social revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua, reactionary movements, and comparative case studies of nonviolent uprisings among others.

Prerequisite: Two 200-level sociology courses.
Instructor: Quinsaat