Examples of movement in the following topics:
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- These movements do not have to be formally organized to be considered social movements.
- Sociologists draw distinctions between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
- 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.
- Discover the difference between social movements and social movement organizations, as well as the four areas social movements operate within
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- 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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- Blumer, Mauss, and Tilly, have described different stages social movements often pass through.
- Movements emerge for a variety of reasons (see the theories below), coalesce, and generally bureaucratize.
- Whether these paths will result in movement decline or not varies from movement to movement.
- In fact, one of the difficulties in studying social movements is that movement success is often ill-defined because movement goals can change.
- This makes the actual stages the movement has passed through difficult to discern.
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- Aberle described four types of social movements based upon two fundamental questions: (1) who is the movement attempting to change?
- The diagram below illustrates how a social movement may either be alternative, redemptive, reformative or revolutionary based on who the movement strives to change and how much change the movement desires to bring about .
- Scope: A movement can be either reform or radical.
- A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
- 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.
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- The term "social movements" was introduced in 1848 by the German Sociologist Lorenz von Stein in his book Socialist and Communist Movements since the Third French Revolution (1848).
- Social movements are not eternal.
- Whether or not these paths will result in movement decline varies from movement to movement.
- In fact, one of the difficulties in studying social movements is that movement success is often ill-defined because the goals of a movement can change.
- In this instance, the movement may or may not have attained its original goal—encouraging the censure of Clinton and moving on to more pressing issues—but the goals of the movement have changed.