People who support regressive social movements
believe that a particular change has caused problems
, and they publicize their concerns, their aim often to create new restrictive rules or laws to reduce the threat that they perceive.
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.
Only
the Tea Party
is a regressive movement, because it is the only movement listed that has mobilized against perceived changes that it dislikes and that favors a return to a prior way of living.
- 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.
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.
Political movements that evolved in late eighteenth century, like those connected to the French Revolution and Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, are among the first documented social movements, although Tilly notes that
the British abolitionist movement
has “some claim” to be the first social movement (becoming one …
- 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.
We know that social movements can occur on the local, national, or even global stage. … 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.
One of the most common and important types of social movements is
the reform movement
, which seeks limited, though still significant, changes in some aspect of a nation’s political, economic, or social systems.
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.
Scope: A movement can be either
reform or radical
. A reform movement advocates changing some norms or laws while a radical movement is dedicated to changing value systems in some fundamental way.
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.
- Physical Environment:
- Demographic (biological) Factor:
- Cultural Factor:
- Ideational Factor:
- Economic Factor:
- Political Factor:
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.
Social movements start
when people realize that there is a specific problem in their society that they want to address
. This realization can come from the dissatisfaction people feel or information and knowledge they get about a specific issue. … The first stage of the social movement is known as emergence.
Social change is continuous and ongoing
. The broad historical processes of social change are the sum total of countless individual and collective actions gathered across time and space. Social movements are directed towards some specific goals. It involves long and continuous social effort and action by people.