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social movement
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  social movement - a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"movement, frontsocial group - people sharing some social relationFighting French, Free French - a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republicart movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principlesBoy Scouts - an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boysCivil Rights movement - movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizenscommon front - a movement in which several individuals or groups with different interests join together; "the unions presented a common front at the bargaining table"cultural movement - a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goalsecumenism, oecumenism - a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches)falun gong - a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practicespolitical movement - a group of people working together to achieve a political goalreform movement - a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reformsreligious movement - a movement intended to bring about religious reformsZionist movement, Zionism - a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine |
social movement
social movement any broad social alliance of people who are associated in seeking to effect or to block an aspect of SOCIAL CHANGE within a society. Unlike POLITICAL PARTIES or some more highly organized interest or PRESSURE GROUPS, such movements may be only informally organized, although they may have links with political parties and more institutionalized groups, and in time they may lead to the formation of political parties. Four distinct areas in which social movements operate in modern societies have been identified by GIDDENS (1985): - democratic movements, concerned with establishing or maintaining political rights;
- labour movements, concerned with defensive control of the workplace and with contesting and transforming the more general distribution of economic power;
- ecological movements, concerned to limit the environmental and social damage resulting from transformation of the natural world by social action;
- peace movements, concerned with challenging the pervasive influence of military power and aggressive forms of nationalism.
Other social movements of importance in recent decades include women's movements and consumer movements. Although in part these types of social movement may act in complementary ways in modern societies, they may also be in conflict, e.g. a demand for work in conflict with ecological considerations. Such movements have also tended to generate contrary social movements concerned to oppose them, including conservative nationalist movements and movements aimed at blocking or reversing moral reforms. Research on social movements, like research on political parties and interest groups generally, has focused on the social and psychological characteristics of those attracted to participate, the relations between leaders and led, and the social and political outcomes of such activity. One thing is clear: social movements are a fluid element within political and social systems, from which more formal political organizations arise and which may bring radical change. See also URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR, ANOMIE, REVOLUTION, FASCISM, PEACE MOVEMENT. AcronymsSeeRSsocial movement
Synonyms for social movementnoun a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goalsSynonymsRelated Words- social group
- Fighting French
- Free French
- art movement
- artistic movement
- Boy Scouts
- Civil Rights movement
- common front
- cultural movement
- ecumenism
- oecumenism
- falun gong
- political movement
- reform movement
- religious movement
- Zionist movement
- Zionism
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