How Have Different Social Movements Exploited or Used Their Ideas

question 30

Essay

How have different social movements exploited or used their ideas of political efficacy to effect social change? How have ideas about political efficacy in the United States changed from social movement to social movement? In your opinion, has political efficacy increased or decreased over time? Is this due to a change in the factors that give rise to social movements? Include at least three social movements over time in your discussion.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator calculating the spread of data around the mean, achieved by the square root of the variance.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of the numbers in the set.

Unimodal

Describing a distribution with a single prominent peak or mode, indicating the most commonly occurring value.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, which separates the higher half from the lower half of the dataset.