Social Movement

Social Movement

Prominent features of social movements:

1.       Acceptance of change

2.      Resistance to change

Social Movement Defined:

Collective efforts of individual or  groups are organized into social movements to project social change.

Social movements refer to any persistent, organized, collective efforts to resist existing structures.

“social movements is defined as “collective enterprises to establish a new order of life”.

Types of Social Movement

1. Redemptive Movements

 Redemptive movements are usually religious in nature which do not attempt to change society but specifically, target change in people.

It is a lifestyle intended to bring about a complete transformation of an individual through radical change. Redemptive social movements are often based on religion.

2. Alternative  Movements

Alternative movements seeks total change among individuals. Examples are students, organizations, civic societies, non government organizations or government organizations campaigning to people, especially the young one’s, to steer clear of prohibited drugs.

3. Reformative Movements

            Reformative movements aim to change not only one’s behavior, but also the behavior of the whole society. These are nationally organized efforts to change the norms of society.

4. Transformative Movements

            Transformative movements work for total change the society.

5. Regressive or Reactionary Movements

   Regressive or reactionary movements have their aim of ‘setting back the clock’. Members view certain social changes with suspicion and distaste and try to reverse current trends in the society.

6. Reform or Revisionary Movements

  believe that certain changes in specific areas of society are necessary but are still satisfied with the existing order.

l7. Revolutionary Movements

    Revolutionary movements  are deeply dissatisfied with the existing social order and work for radical change that is tailored to their ideological beliefs.

8. Utopian Movements

    refer to the member’s vision of radical change and blissful life, either on a large scale sometimes in the future or on a small scale at present. Several contemporary religious cults are examples of Utopian movements.

l9. Escapist or Retreatist Movement

            this movement do not seek to change society, but to withdraw from it and not to experience its corruption. Certain religious sects are examples of this type of movement where the group of members isolate themselves from contact with outsiders.

10. Expressive Social movements

   This aim to change the psychological and emotional social movements of their individual members. The basic forms of expressive movements are religious movements and fashion movements which do not aim to change the world, but give the members opportunities for engaging in ceremonial and related behavior so that inner feelings can be satisfactorily expressed.

Other Important Social Movement

1. GLOBALIZATION- breaking down of the national barriers so that nations can interact freely with each other.

2.WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS-women claim the rights as men.

3. INDUSTRIALIZATION-introduction of power machines and the factory in the manufacture  goods.