- 9/11 Truth movement.
- Adverse Childhood Experiences movement.
- Animal rights movement.
- Anti-Apartheid Movement.
- Anti-bullying movement.
- Anti-capitalism.
- Anti-consumerism.
- Anti-fascism.
- 5 Types of Social Movements. Reform movements, Revolutionary movements, Religious movements, Alternative movements, Resistance movements,
- Reform Movements. …
- Revolutionary Movements. …
- Religious Movements. …
- Alternative Movements. …
- Resistance Movements. …
- Reform Movement Example. …
- Revolutionary Movement Example.
The new movements instead of pushing for specific changes in public policy emphasize social changes in identity, lifestyle and culture. … Examples of those new movements include
the women’s movement
, the ecology movement, gay rights movement and various peace movements, among others.
Social movement,
a loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal
, typically either the implementation or the prevention of a change in society’s structure or values. Although social movements differ in size, they are all essentially collective.
- civil rights movement in the United States.
- environmental movement.
- green movement.
- gay rights movement.
- labor movement.
- anti-globalization movement.
- vegetarian movement.
- feminist movement.
Reform movements seek to change something specific about the social structure. Examples include
antinuclear groups
, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), the Dreamers movement for immigration reform, and the Human Rights Campaign’s advocacy for Marriage Equality.
- Essentially collective in nature: Social movement is not an individual action. …
- Planned and deliberate action: Social movements have to be preplanned to be executed effectively. …
- Ideology and objectives: A social movement is backed by an ideology.
The old social movements clearly saw
reorganisation of power relations
as a central goal. … So the ‘new’ social movements were not about changing the distribution of power in society but about quality-of-life issues such as having a clean environment.
Whatever the focus, all movements require one key element to be transformed from an idea of a few to an idea of many: people. A movement becomes a social movement when it requires
a collective power beyond small-group organizing to build
and sustain a long-term goal of change for an issue.
- Physical Environment:
- Demographic (biological) Factor:
- Cultural Factor:
- Ideational Factor:
- Economic Factor:
- Political Factor:
Aberle’s Four Types of Social Movements: 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
. Other categories have been used to distinguish between types of social movements.
The four stages of social movement development are
emergence, coalescence, bureaucra- tization, and decline
. The Decline stage can result from several different causes, such as repression, co-optation, success, failure, and mainstream.
Social movements role in society is not necessarily to achieve an agenda or solely change laws. Social movement’s role is
to allow people the opportunity to come together, speak their mind, and make people aware of an issue that is close to their heart
.
Sociologists have looked at social movements and offered several theories to explain how they develop. Three of those theories –
deprivation theory, mass-society theory and structure strain theory
– will be discussed in this lesson.
- Step 1: Know Your Movement. Know who you want to take action and what action you want them to take. …
- Step 2: Get Educated. What would be the concerns about people starting the movement? …
- Step 3: Make it popular. …
- Step 4: Rally the troops. …
- Step 5: Set up communication. …
- Step 6: Get Noticed. …
- Step 7: Take it easy.
What are popular movements?
A popular movement is a type of group action also called a social movement. People’s Movement or Popular Movement may also refer to a number of political parties: Algerian Popular Movement (Mouvement Populaire Algérien, founded 2013)