Question: 1. The reading discusses the efforts to revitalize city areas that have historically been less affluent, the process of gentrification. What are the potential effects of gentrification on the economy and current residents of the neighborhood? NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests occur when concerned citizens band together to speak up against something that will impact them negatively. Who is more likely to be involved in NIMBY protests and where do they occur? Give an example of a NIMBY protest and whether you support it or not.

2. Consider what you have learned about collective behavior, social movements, and social change this week. How is the global expansion of social media likely to affect how people pursue social change? How has it done so already? Use specific examples as you analyze social movements, social change, technology, and the media.

The Week 8 Forum meets the following course objectives:

Apply a sociological perspective to the social world.

Analyze contemporary social issues using the sociological imagination and use sociological theories and concepts to analyze everyday life.

Explain collective behavior, social movements, and social change.

Instructions for all Forums: Each week, learners will post one initial post per week. This post must demonstrate comprehension of the course materials, the ability to apply that knowledge in the real world. Learners will engage with the instructor and peers throughout the learning week. To motivate engaged discussion, posts are expected to be on time with regular interaction throughout the week. All posts should demonstrate college level writing skills. To promote vibrant discussion as we would in a face to face classroom, formatted citations and references are not required. Quotes should not be used at all, or used sparingly. If you quote a source quotation marks should be used and an APA formatted citation and reference provided.

Introduction to Sociology

Social Institutions

Question 2: Consider what you have learned about collective behavior, social movements, and social change this week. How is the global expansion of social media likely to affect how people pursue social change? How has it done so already? Use specific examples as you analyze social movements, social change, technology, and the media?

Social movements are groups working towards a common goal. This team might try to bring change or stop change (anti-globalization movement). This group creates social shift across the continents. The social change nowadays is greatly influenced by the expansion of social media and its acceptance the community. It is important to note that social movement originates typically where there is a dysfunction in the relationship between systems.

I believe that the global growth of social media will promote the social change due to high acceptance it receives by the groups around the world. Social media influence a high magnitude of people, sometimes social media is addictive if not controlled. A specific example is when women across the globe take to the street against trump win of the election of United States, even though the election happened in the United States, the demonstration occur around the globe. Social media plays a crucial role in organizing all the rally to fight for a universal call.

Social media expansion can also significantly influence a social movement, for instance recently across the United States of America; there was a movement duped "black lives matter"social media accelerated the growth of this movement. We saw this movement get support across the globe even from Africa. The most recent is HM clothing company, and a black child model who was modeling a cloth with writing "Coolest monkey in the jungle" .this did go well with the Africa-America community, we saw a significant outcry and organization of rallies across the world. All this happen due to the power of social media and its high acceptance.