Examples of counter movements in the following topics:
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Introduction
- Social movements do not have to be formally organized.
- A distinction is drawn between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
- A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
- It is also interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
- For instance, the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a number of counter movements that attempted to block the goals of the women's movement, many of which were reform movements within conservative religions.
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Social Movements
- These movements do not have to be formally organized to be considered social movements.
- A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
- It is interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
- For instance, the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a number of counter movements that attempted to block the goals of the women's movement.
- Discover the difference between social movements and social movement organizations, as well as the four areas social movements operate within
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Cult
- Cult refers to a religious movement or group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.
- The Christian counter-cult movement is a social movement of Christian ministries and individual Christian counter-cult activists who oppose religious sects thought to either partially or entirely fail to abide by the teachings of the Bible.
- The word "cult" in current popular usage usually refers to a new religious movement or other group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.
- Secular cult opponents like those belonging to the anti-cult movement tend to define a cult as a group that tends to manipulate, exploit, and control its members.
- Their motivations, the roles they play in the anti-cult movement, the validity of their testimony, and the narratives they construct, are controversial.
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Mannerism and the Counter-Reformation
- These decrees included short passages concerning religious images that had significant impact on the development of Catholic art during the Counter-Reformation.
- The reforms that resulted from this council are what set the basis for Counter-Reformation art.
- The Last Judgment was an object of dispute between critics within the Catholic Counter-Reformation and those who appreciated the genius of the artist and the Mannerist style of the painting.
- Scipione Pulzone's Lamentation, a pious depiction of the Crucifixion, embodied a typical Counter-Reformation work.
- Distinguish the artistic ideal of the Counter-Reformation from Mannerism and the art of the Reformation in Northern Europe
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The Bhakti Movement
- The Bhakti Movement resulted in a mass of devotional literature, music, and art that gave India renewed spiritual impetus.
- The Bhakti movement is a Hindu religious movement in which the main spiritual practice is loving devotion among the Shaivite and Vaishnava saints.
- The Bhakti movement also countered the prevalent caste ideology which was dividing Hinduism.
- The movement was spontaneous and the mystics had their own versions of devotional expression.
- Generally a liberal movement, its denouncement of caste offered recourse for Hindus from the orthodox Brahaminical systems.
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Countercultures
- Counterculture is a term describing the values and norms of a cultural group that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
- Counterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition.
- The counterculture in the United States lasted from roughly 1964 to 1973 — coinciding with America's involvement in Vietnam — and reached its peak in 1967, the "Summer of Love. " The movement divided the country: to some Americans, these attributes reflected American ideals of free speech, equality, world peace, and the pursuit of happiness; to others, the same attributes reflected a self-indulgent, pointlessly rebellious, unpatriotic, and destructive assault on America's traditional moral order.
- Apply the concept of counterculture to the rise and collapse of the US Hippie movement
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Romanticism
- Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.
- In most areas the movement was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 CE to 1840 CE.
- Though influenced by other artistic and intellectual movements, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution created the primary context from which both Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment emerged.
- This proto-romantic movement was centered on literature and music, but also influenced the visual arts.
- The movement emphasized individual subjectivity.
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Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
- The African American Civil Rights Movement refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.
- The Civil Rights Movement generally lasted from 1955 to 1968 and was particularly focused in the American South.
- This mass action approach typified the movement from 1960 to 1968.
- Civil Rights Movement.
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Examples of Social Movements
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Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides
- During the sit-in movement of the 1960s, students and other civil rights activists would "sit-in" at whites-only locations.
- Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter, and the store's manager asked them to leave.
- The lunch counter staff continued to refuse service.
- The successful six-month-long Greensboro sit-in initiated the student phase of the African American civil rights movement and, within two months, the sit-in movement had spread to 54 cities in nine states.
- Though Freedom Summer failed to register many voters, it significantly effected the course of the Civil Rights Movement.