Psychology & Brain Sciences 492P - S-CivilResistance&SocialChange

Focusing on so-called campaigns of "nonviolent direct action," "people power," "unarmed insurrection," or "color revolutions," this course will apply sociological perspectives to the causes, effects, and dynamics of resistance in political and non-institutional mobilizations. Among the topics: how organized, strategic, and mass-mobilized popular resistance sometimes brings about change, only to spawn its own forms of domination.