Homespun Movement

Examples of Homespun Movement in the following topics:

• Revolutionary Women

  • Women worked in the Homespun Movement.
  • Nonimportation and nonconsumption became major weapons in the arsenal of the American resistance movement against the British.
  • The nonimportation movement brought many rural communities into the political movement.
  • In addition to the boycotts of British textiles, the Homespun Movement served the Continental Army by producing needed clothing and blankets.

• Women in the Revolution

  • Nonimportation and non-consumption became major weapons in the arsenal of the American resistance movement against British taxation without representation.
  • Women played a major role in this method of defiance by denouncing silks, satins, and other imported luxuries in favor of homespun clothing, generally made in spinning and quilting bees.
  • As a result of nonimportation, many rural communities that were previously only peripherally involved in the political movements of the day were brought "into the growing community of resistance" because of the appeal "to the traditional values" of rural life.
  • In addition to boycotts of British goods, Patriot women participated in the "Homespun Movement."
  • The practices of the Homespun Movement extended beyond cloth goods.

• Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

  • The Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements were two colonial movements created in response to British taxation.
  • Two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation such as the Stamp Act .
  • The goal of these movements was to make the colonies less dependent on British imports and other goods.
  • The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun".
  • In the countryside, while Patriots supported the non-importation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty continued to support American resistance.

• The Townshend Acts

  • Along with boycotts, two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation.
  • The goal of these movements was to make the colonies less dependent on British imports and other goods.
  • However, the non-importation movement was not as effective as promoters had hoped.
  • The boycott movement began to fail by 1770, and came to an end in 1771.
  • The Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric, known as "homespun."

• Examples of Social Movements

• Social Movements

  • These movements do not have to be formally organized to be considered social movements.
  • Sociologists draw distinctions between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
  • A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
  • It is interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
  • Discover the difference between social movements and social movement organizations, as well as the four areas social movements operate within

• Introduction

  • Social movements do not have to be formally organized.
  • A distinction is drawn between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
  • A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
  • It is also interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
  • For instance, the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a number of counter movements that attempted to block the goals of the women's movement, many of which were reform movements within conservative religions.

• Stages in Social Movements

  • Blumer, Mauss, and Tilly, have described different stages social movements often pass through.
  • Movements emerge for a variety of reasons (see the theories below), coalesce, and generally bureaucratize.
  • Whether these paths will result in movement decline or not varies from movement to movement.
  • In fact, one of the difficulties in studying social movements is that movement success is often ill-defined because movement goals can change.
  • This makes the actual stages the movement has passed through difficult to discern.

• Types of Social Movements

  • Aberle described four types of social movements based upon two fundamental questions: (1) who is the movement attempting to change?
  • The diagram below illustrates how a social movement may either be alternative, redemptive, reformative or revolutionary based on who the movement strives to change and how much change the movement desires to bring about .
  • Scope: A movement can be either reform or radical.
  • A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
  • Based on who a movement is trying to change and how much change a movement is advocating, Aberle identified four types of social movements: redemptive, reformative, revolutionary and alternative.

• Movement