social movement

How To Use social movement In A Sentence

• Over the past three decades environmentalism has evolved from a social movement to a societal ethic.
• While social movement theorists cite that electoral politics serve only to co-opt our work, we must ask ourselves if certain publications don't do the same.
• The impulse to declare social movements dead is as old as social movements themselves; the term postfeminist was used as early as 1919, a year before women gained the right to vote. Big Girls Don’t Cry
• Building on the practices and stories that survived - or emerged from -- hundreds of years of cultural intermixture, oppression, and natural evolution, social movement leaders constructed a powerful narrative of origin from which to build cultural pride and political power. Nathaniel Loewentheil: Bolivia: One Llama's Great Incan Adventure
• Their analysis traces the political origins and impact of social movement activity in terms of the protection of individual rights of citizenship.
• Drawing on social movement and organizational theory, we explain how challenging parties not only mobilize to achieve their goals but how they are able to transform contestation into collaboration.
• Supporters of this social movement share a diffuse ideology that sees marijuana and hashish as natural and benign drugs and their use as legitimate.
• Members of social movements use graffiti as a way of influencing the political reality of the public.
• Second, social movements are predicated on, and derive their legitimacy from, mass mobilization and popular support.
• The tactics of social movements, too, may vary, ranging from moral suasion to civil disobedience, from demonstrations to petitioning, and from armed self-defense to armed struggle.