Sociology / Unit 10 Soc 1798 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Social Movement Sector, Industry, and Organization, Distinguished
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The idea
A movement organization is a single group; an industry is organizations sharing goals; the sector is the sum of all industries.
In practice
One organization pursuing a policy sits inside an industry of similar groups pursuing the same goal, itself inside the sector.
Where people slip
These terms nest at increasing scale; using "movement" loosely for all three collapses a distinction this course keeps locked.
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