Section 3
Social Movements
By Boundless
Social movements are broad alliances of people connected through a shared interest in either stopping or instigating social change.
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Social movements occur when large groups of individuals or organizations work for or against change in social and/or political matters.
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Mass media can be employed to manipulate populations to further the power elite's agenda.
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Social movements typically follow a process by which they emerge, coalesce, and bureaucratize, leading to their success or failure.
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Social scientists have cited 'relative deprivation' as a potential cause of social movements and deviance.
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The resource-mobilization approach is a theory that seeks to explain the emergence of social movements.
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The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns on issues pertaining to women, such as reproductive rights and women's suffrage.
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New social movements focus on issues related to human rights, rather than on materialistic concerns, such as economic development.