Is Saturday’s 'March for Our Lives' a moment or a movement?
Is Saturday’s 'March for Our Lives' a moment or a movement?
- March 22, 2018
- David Meyer, sociology, in Deseret News, March 22, 2018
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Social movements are most effective when they combine dramatic public demonstrations
with quiet work inside political institutions, according to experts like David S.
Meyer, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Sometimes
the people fulfilling each of these roles will disagree, but they must learn to work
together, he said.
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