I have some questions having to do with Sociology...?

[Meygan C]

1.) Why do some critics say that the US is not really a democracy?
2.) How do social movements both encourage and resist social change?
3.) How does who and what are defined as deviant reflect social inequality?

[Orpheus G]

1)Maybe because it is not a democracy, like the USSR was not really communist. The US is a... oh poop, I can't think of the name of it.

2)I can see how social movements could be said to encourage social change, it is obvious, but the only way I can see them as resisting social change is by staying alive for a long enough time that they are out dated and and have started to hold back social change.

3)Well because the views of the "deviant" are ignored when they may be as valid as any other more mainstream views, creating the inequality.