Annotated Bibliography: Narrative And Social Movements

The narrative is when a writing is written to tell a story, not a true story though. For example, the magazines have true stories written in them, but the book "we're Going on a Bear Hunt" has a fictional story written in it and this is a narrative. However, Gamble and Yates (2f) argues that narrative stories can be written as fictional and factual. House (2a) defines the book "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" as adventures. The story of the book is about four siblings that go out on a journey to search for a bear, and throughout their journey, and they come across a series of obstacles; however they always find a way to overcome them together (2a). The pictures in the book are simple but they still draw the reader's eyes. Some very simple words

Narratives encourage us to feel a particular way about the events and people in them. They often encourage us to align ourselves with one character in a narrative and not with others.

Atkinson, J. (2017). The Study of Social Activism. In Journey into Social Activism: Qualitative Approaches (pp. 3-26). NEW YORK: Fordham

Tufekci uses different strategies to convince her audience that present day protest, no longer has the same effect they did before social media. She proposes this theory by stating that “social media” has changed the game for protest. Tufekci gives examples of different type of protest throughout American history to show the effect it has on society. For example, the Women March of 2017, March on Washington of 1963, Antiwar Protest 2003, and the Tea Party protest of 2009. All these protests impacted America in different ways. Tufekci was able to grasp her audience attention by appealing to nature and authority.

Narrative writing retells an experience that has been life changing in some way. That means that the subject can be a moment in which you learned something about yourself, about life, or had something frightening happen to you that has changed your point of view. In the sample essays provided, I read about experiences with racism, police brutality, and domestic violence.

A narrative makes the events link up together and forms a story. When I heard from Morgan, I understand the narrative therapy is using the storytelling to find out the dominant events orderly and understand to meaning for them clearly.

Protests have been seen by the public for decades as a demonstration technique done by individuals to express their desire to support a particular cause. The styles of protest, which exists, are violent and nonviolent, which can have different outcomes for the parties involved. There is an argument that needs to be addressed when people are willing participants in a protest. Can a protest end in peace, and does it make an impact on the cause in which a person is supporting? The form of protests initiated by the character Sammie in John Updike’s A&P is vastly different to the style of protesting that is reported by various news outlets in today’s society (Kennedy and Gioia 18). In this essay, the reader will be given a comparison/contrast research paper on how protests were handled during the time that Updike wrote A&P to the protest, which took

Common among naysayers of societal change and distrusting pessimists, the belief that downtrodden people’s grievances will ultimately fall for naught is based upon instances of attempted revolutions and ostensibly failed movements throughout human society. Multiple situations support this belief, especially within the

Nelson Mandela once remarked, “When people are determined they can overcome anything.” In literature, one can explore what it really means to be determined, to turn injustice into fuel to motivate the struggle to build a more just society. In Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala, Malala is faced with injustice in the form of education being denied her because she is a girl. She finds herself speaking up for what is right—namely, that girls should get an education just like boys. Similarly, in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie deals with the ongoing issue of racism. Cassie is not afraid to speak her mind even if she knows she’ll get hurt by doing so. Through an analysis of these texts, we see that when someone is faced with injustice it forms their identity as a person because in discovering the problem, they gain a resilience within. This new acquisition compels them to change and speak out against the obstacle they face.

Stories are a powerful tool as they tend to resonate more deeply with us that a list of facts do. They affect our emotions, make us question our morals, and can sometimes even force us to examine our place in the world and in society. As such, stories have the potential ability to cause action. Stories about the plight of a race, the brutal actions of a rebel group, or the successes of once poor immigrant, for example, instill a sense of inspiration and allow us to feel closer to, and hence more likely to get involved with, an event or idea. Protests are one such scenario

A social movement is defined as “a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group.” However, the concept of a social movement cannot be confined to a simple explanation. Scholars have developed various theories regarding processes that influence a social movement. Such theories include the collective behavior theory, resource mobilization theory, and political process model. Moreover, there are various factors other than a group’s grievances that cause the creation of a social movement. Connections, resources, identities are all factors that can influence the development and participation within a social movement. To

Often times protest is associated with violence. From riots to strikes, violence is usually linked with the oppressed people as a form of retaliation. However in protest literature, it takes more of the form to show the struggle the oppressed are facing and represent suffering. A main goal is to inflict an emotional response for the reader. Works of protest literature that provide evidence of this is in Richard Wright’s story of Big Boy Leaving Home and in

“As Melucci (1989:38) states, a defining attribute of a social movement is “the extent to which its actions challenge or break the limits of a system of social relations (Carroll and Ratner, 6).”” This paper intends to examine the articles that have been studied throughout the course, along with the textbook written by Staggenborg, and class notes from lectures, explaining the importance of social movements in society today, the history behind social movements, what has made certain movements successful, and what has been a contributor to movements who have failed. The theories that researches examine social movements with will be examined, along with the civil rights movement, women’s movement, indigenous movement, gays and lesbians movement, and the different factors that help contribute to becoming a successful movement.

Narrative research is rooted in the study of stories told by participants about specific events, or a series of events. This type of study focuses on one individual, sometimes two and relies mostly on interviews as the method for collecting data (Creswell, 2013). There are many types of narratives, some dating back to the beginning of civilization. These approaches include: a life history, an oral history, biographical study, and an autoethnography (Creswell, 2013).

Social movements come about for various reasons and are driven by various means. People are motivated for movement by things that affect them personally. Social movements can be defined simply as an organized effort of a group to promote or resist change either within the group, or society as a whole. For change to be sought, people must see something as troublesome. Varying political environments may also support or hinder social movements and activist factions. Activists and social movement organizations may have increased access to sway the ideas of politicians, opportunities to take advantage of political instability, or exploit the political system’s ability to inhibit their actions, based upon the political environment. This