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  2. Social movement organization - Wikipedia

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    In social movement theory, a social movement organization is an organized component of a social movement (SM). An SMO is usually only a part of a particular social movement; in other words, a specific social movement is usually composed of many social movement organizations – formal organizations that share the movement's goals. [2]

  3. Social movement - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Christiansen's essay on the four stages of social movement dissects further into the historical sociology of how each stage affects the whole movement. The Civil Rights Movement's early stages are an example of the public display of protest that is utilized to push a movement into the next stages.

  4. List of social movements - Wikipedia

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    Social movements are groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on political or social issues. This list excludes the following: Artistic movements: see list of art movements. Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements

  5. New social movements - Wikipedia

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    The term new social movements (NSMs) is a theory of social movements that attempts to explain the plethora of new movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i.e. in a post-industrial economy) which are claimed to depart significantly from the conventional social movement paradigm.

  6. Social movement theory - Wikipedia

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    Social movement theory is an interdisciplinary study within the social sciences that generally seeks to explain why social mobilization occurs, the forms under which it manifests, as well as potential social, cultural, political, and economic consequences, such as the creation and functioning of social movements.

  7. Repertoire of contention - Wikipedia

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    Repertoire of contention refers, in social movement theory, to the set of various protest-related tools and actions available to a movement or related organization in a given time frame. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The historian Charles Tilly , who brought the concept into common usage, also referred to the "repertoire of collective action."

  8. Social organization - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and groups. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Characteristics of social organization can include qualities such as sexual composition, spatiotemporal cohesion, leadership , structure , division of labor, communication systems, and so on.

  9. Category:Social movement organizations - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Social movement organizations" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.