It is an event of a group of people unites with an idea with the intention of creating a permanent effect on their society or resisting it to shape the future.
Along with the participation of the organization, leadership and resources
Context, place, date and historical data
- The 20th , the era of Nazism, Fascism and Stalinism social movements that resulted in destruction. In the 60s the social movement by academics changed, after the civil rights movement
- Martin Luther King Jr. stood as a beacon to the people of color who were oppressed.He knew how to speak to a crowd and unite them in a single idea and how to gain the support he needed for the social movement to succeed. Then you have the rational choice theory which proposes that people compare pros and cons of different courses of action and chose the one that they think is best for themselves.
Process of deindividualization
Process by which people lose their sense of socialized individual identity and adopt antisocial behaviors that aims at the development of individual personalityProgress or results from the movement.
There are several theories as to how and why social movements form.
One of these is called mass society theory.
People were sceptical of the motivations of those involved in social movements.
They were seen as dysfunctional, irrational, and dangerous, and that people would only join because
the social movement provided a sense of community and refuge from the meaninglessness of life on one zone.
According to relative deprivation theory
those three things are necessary for a social movement to form
- a relative deprivation,
- a feeling of deserving better,
- and to believe that conventional methods are useless to help.
Social movements can even affect people than not actively involved in them.
Social movements can cause collective behavior like panics,where widespread,unreasoning fear causes people to act hastily,
A successful social movement eventually gets absorbed into the existing institutions when it has achieved its desired changes.