Ritzer cites five types of resources necessary for successful social movements. List and explain the four that you see as most important. Give an example of each.

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Correct answer varies but includes four of these five: (1) material resources such as money, property, and equipment; (2) social-organizational resources, which include infrastructure (internet access), social networks (insiders with access to important groups and organizations), and the organizations that are formed by the social movement; (3) human resources such as the leadership expertise, skills, and day-to-day labor of those in the organization; (4) moral resources such as the degree to which the larger public regards the movement as legitimate; and (5) cultural resources such as bodies of knowledge or skills that are tacitly shared by at least some members of the movement.

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