Concept information
Preferred term
social movements
Definition
- Social movements are collective, sustained challenges to state and nonstate systems of political, economic, or cultural governance. Prominent examples include the civil rights, peace, environmental, and antiglobalization movements. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Social Movements]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- '68 generation
- alt-right
- anti-globalization movement
- antisystemic movements
- black power movement
- Chicano movement
- Chipko movement
- civil rights movement
- consumerism
- countermovements
- deep ecology movement
- environmental movements
- eugenics
- European green movements
- fathers' rights movement
- feminism
- freemasonry
- gay and lesbian movement
- international environmental movements
- international environmental NGOs
- labor movement
- liberation movements
- #Metoo movement
- movimento sem terra
- NIMBYism
- prohibition of alcohol
- resource mobilization
- sanctuary movement
- social revolutions
- temperance movement
- transnational activism
- transnational social movement
- vegetarian movement
- Via Campesina
- women's movement
- women's rights movement
- World Federalist Movement
- youth movements
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/social_movements
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