Civil Disobedience
1. Find a social movement (ANY ONE) in the Britannica Guide and apply Charles Tilly’s “WUNC” analysis to it as best you can.
https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Social-Movements-1768-2004-by-Charles-Tilly.pdf
2. Based on your reading of the Stanford Encyclopedia’s definition of “civil disobedience,” give one example provided in the encyclopedia of the practice, and one example you can think of from the recent past.
3. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy selection on “Civil Disobedience,” discusses the philosophy behind the practice. How can non-violent civil disobedience, according to one of the philosopher’s quoted, perhaps be more forceful and “violent” than actual acts of physical violence?
This is the link for questions 2 & 3- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/
4. What does Henry David Thoreau mean when he writes, “The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.”?
5. What specific laws does Thoreau have in mind when he writes, “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?” How were these laws Thoreau had in mind transgressed in his era?
-For questions 4 & 5 I put the pdf file in the attachment.
For more information on Civil Disobedience read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
