When a recruiter for a social movement organization assumes everyone has the same reason for joining, he fails to understand that:
individuals often have different understandings of themselves and their own participation in collectives
.
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.
Social movements are broad alliances of people who are connected through their shared interest in social change. Social movements can
advocate for a particular social change
, but they can also organize to oppose a social change that is being advocated by another entity.
Stage 3:
Bureaucratization
The third stage of the social movement life cycle is known as bureaucratization. As a movement grows, it often tends to become bureaucratized, and paid leaders and paid staff replace the volunteers that began the movement.
What happens in the “incipient” stage of a social movement? …
social change is occurring at all times, not just at moments of obvious political upheaval
. The rate at which it happens varies over time.
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.
- agitation.
- resource mobilization.
- organization.
- institutionalization.
- decline/death.
- Technology.
- Population.
- War and conquest.
- Diffusion.
- Values and beliefs.
- Physical environment.
- The Reformation.
- The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
- The Civil Rights movement.
- The feminist movement.
- The LGBTQ+ rights movement.
- The green movement.
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
.
The four stages of social movement development in order are:
preliminary stage, coalescence stage, institutionalization stage, decline stage
. In the preliminary stage, people begin to become aware of an issue and leaders begin to emerge. In the coalescence stage, people join together to raise awareness of an issue.
in the third stage of a social movement Bureaucratization,
you have a foundation and you are all organized and you have a lot more political power
. in this stage most social movements fail. Decline is the last stage of a social movement.
He described four types of social movements, including:
alternative, redemptive, reformative, and revolutionary social movements
.
Social movements strive for social change.
Objectives, ideology, leadership, programmes and organisation
are the major components of social movements. They are the spirit of democracy and dynamics of society.
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 …
In sociology, an alternative movement or alterative movement refers to
a social movement that seeks limited societal change
. They target a small group of people and a specific behavior, and attempt to change the behavior of individual people in relation to that issue.
