What relevance does social class have for the study of social movements? What is power? Why is it important to analyze power when looking at social movements?

What relevance does social class have for the study of social movements? (400)
2. What is power? Why is it important to analyse power when looking at social movements? (800)
3. Use the Internet to research the women’s suffrage movement. Why is the suffrage movement a good example of a social movement? What arguments did men used to resist the women’s suffrage movement? Why couldn’t women have the vote? What arguments did women use to support their position? How was the movement mobilized? (800)
Reference:
Staggenborg, S. (2008). Social movements. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada.
Wikipedia. (2010, December 6). Women’s suffrage in the United States.