SOC 395-03 - Advanced Special Topic: Regimes, Resistance, and Repression

4 credits (Spring)

This sociology seminar will investigate why and how resistance emerges, develops, and succeeds or fails in different types of global governments. Using a global and comparative lens, this seminar 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 covered include Arab Spring, social revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua, reactionary movements, and comparative case studies of nonviolent uprisings among others.

Prerequisite: One 200-level Sociology course.
Instructor: Quinsaat