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Pages in category "Social movements in the United States" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
McCormack suggested that the name “Social Organization” would be appropriate for a new section interested in collective behavior and social movements. However, John Lofland , who was central in the effort to establish an entirely separate section within the ASA for this cause, responded adamantly that the title should pay homage to the ...
Social movements are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues. In other words, they promote, resist or undo social change .
The right to assemble is recognized as a human right and protected in the First Amendment of the US Constitution under the clause, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of ...
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People's Movement Assemblies (PMA's) are informally organized groups of activists to create and coordinate solutions to various social problems. [14] At the 2010 US Social Forum, [15] over 200 organizations participated in 52 PMA's of four people each. 45 resolutions for action were confirmed, adding to another 24 created before the Forum. [16]
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. [1]