INQ-110 | Fads, Fashions and Movements

Full Title: Fads, Fashions and Movements

Topic Description:

This course explores two forms of social change in the United States: mass behavior and social movements. Through a close study of fads and fashions, this course will attempt to understand the emergence and disappearance of fads and fashions and what they say about a culture. In addition, the course will study another form of collective behavior, the social movement, by learning about recent movements in the United States. We’ll ask questions about the conditions that give rise to movements, who participates in them and why, and social movement ideology, organization, and tactics.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: March 2010