Reflective paper of social movement of the film Suffragette.

Name: William Reyes

Course: Social Movements

 

Reflective Analysis of Social Movement Frameworks: Movie Suffragette

 

            Collective action requires ingenuity to present ideas that people can support. But often people are not able to recognize the grievances of oppressed groups because they lack support. By employing frameworks or tactics that appeals to the public ethos, the collective action of the feminist in the movie Suffragette new the problem and they just took the initiative to present their diagnostic of the problem of women at that time..  The Movie Suffragette exemplified the plied and present portray of women subjugation under a male dominant culture. In which males have all the power to keep women from exercising their most basic fundamental right of voting. During the early turn of the 20^th century women became actively engaged is reforming the system in North America. The collective action of this early visionaries were motivated to inform the public that women have not been given the respect to self-termination, to execute the agency of autonomy and this represented a form of slavery. The participant of the movement engages actively by taking the massage of injustice to the public. They use banners and public speeches to demonstrate that their cause was just. At first these women were arrested and charges with obstructing traffic. At the their arraignment in court the stablish punishment for them which they refuse to paid, because it formalize their grievance by stablishing that they have not broken any laws for exercising their constitutional  right to assembly. Thus, it matter little to the courts the intention that these women were addressing. The courts recognize only the law and to change an unjust system individual must be willing to risks their own liberty to obtain justice. The protest did not end once they arrested, it continue even in jail. They refuse to eat, fallow order, and even demanded that their garments be given back. While on the outside the movement continues these women succeeded in showing the lack of political representation women had at the time.

The fundamental goal of social movement is to grow. How this would be accomplished if not by recruiting new members, who engage a participant actively in social ideology base on the interest, beliefs, and values. However, social movement does not materialize overnight, and people are not so easily convinced. In this regard, every social movement begins with minute collective groups of people organized to further their interest. In this way, tiny groups are able to organize and framing their grievances about a way the public will be willing to listen and observe and at the same time possibly recruit new members. Once small groups grow in memberships as a collective and manage to gather large numbers of supporters, they become social movement. Which then allows collective action to evolve into social movement; the majority of supporters can formally legitimize and represent the grievances with the goals for change or to even reform the system in order to be in equilibrium with their demands. I was deeply moved by the Movie Suffrage after seem the kind culture blinders women dealt in that early time of the 20th century.

One of the helpful parts of the movie was that it removes the idea that women were kept on a pedestal during this period. The framing of women conditions in putting their massage forward was universal. However, most of all that in order to create change people must be willing and even sacrifice their own safety. Challenging established norms can put in dire strain on protester and while this may be true, the movie was effective in showing the problem within the system. That if you become an obstructing by challenging the power institution and can resist the burden of oppression, then maybe other can recognize that there is a problem.