New Culture Movement

Examples of New Culture Movement in the following topics:

• New Social Movements

  • The most noticeable feature of new social movements is that they are primarily social and cultural and only secondarily, if at all, political.
  • Departing from the worker's movement, which was central to the political aim of gaining access to citizenship and representation for the working class, new social movements concentrate on bringing about social mobilization through cultural innovations, the development of new lifestyles, and the transformation of identities.
  • Hence, new social movements are understood as "new," because they are first and foremost social, unlike older movements which mostly have an economic basis.
  • Further, new social movements are located in civil society or the cultural sphere as a major arena for collective action rather than instrumental action in the state, which Claus Offe characterizes as "bypass[ing] the state. " Moreover, since new social movements are not normally concerned with directly challenging the state, they are regarded as anti-authoritarian and as resisting incorporation at the institutional level.
  • Evaluate the significance of new social movements (NSMs), which are more concerned with social and cultural issues, and the implications NSMs have on modern-day society

• The Early 20th Century

  • The early 20th century was marked by rapid industrial, economic, social and cultural change, which influenced the worldview of many and set the stage for new artistic movements.
  • The first two decades of the 20th century were marked by enormous industrial, economic, social and cultural change.
  • The economic and social changes of the early 20th century greatly influenced the North American and European worldview which, in turn, shaped the development of new styles of art.
  • The rapid rise of technology impacted artists both directly and indirectly, from the invention of new artistic materials to subject matter and themes.
  • Identify how industrial, economic, social, and cultural change set the stage for the art movements of the early 20th century.

• Latino Rights

  • The Chicano Movement was the part of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement that sought political and social empowerment for Mexican Americans.
  • The Mexican American Movement was part of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s seeking political empowerment and social inclusion for Mexican Americans.
  • Like the African American movement, the Mexican American civil rights movement won its earliest victories in the federal courts.
  • The equivalent of the Black Power movement among Mexican Americans was the Chicano Movement.
  • By their account, Mexican-Americans were a conquered people who needed to reclaim their birthright and cultural heritage as part of a new nation, which later became known as Aztlán.

• The Stages of Social Movements

  • Sidney Tarrow defines a social movement as collective challenges [to elites, authorities, other groups or cultural codes] by people with common purposes and solidarity in sustained interactions with elites, opponents and authorities.
  • Social movements are not eternal.
  • The concept dates back to Erving Goffman, and it discuss how new values, new meanings and understandings are required in order to understand and support social movements or changes.
  • Whether or not these paths will result in movement decline varies from movement to movement.
  • In fact, one of the difficulties in studying social movements is that movement success is often ill-defined because the goals of a movement can change.

• Mechanisms of Cultural Change

  • One sex might desire changes that affect the other, as happened in the second half of the 20th century in western cultures (see, for example, the women's movement), while the other sex may be resistant to that change (possibly in order to maintain a power imbalance in their favor).
  • Discovery refers to the finding of new knowledge within an existing realm.
  • Generally, it relates to discovering new understanding of a particular behavior or ritual.
  • Invention is the creation of a new device or process.
  • New discoveries often lead to new inventions by people.

• Cultural Change

  • One sex might desire changes that affect the other, as happened in the second half of the 20th century in western cultures (see, for example, the women's movement), while the other sex may be resistant to that change (possibly in order to maintain a power imbalance in their favor).
  • Cultural change can have many causes, including: the environment, inventions, and contact with other cultures.
  • For example, the ankh symbol originated in Egyptian culture but has diffused to numerous cultures.
  • It's original meaning may have been lost, but it is now used by many practitioners of New Age Religion as an arcane symbol of power or life forces.
  • This alternative posits that culture and cultural works are collective, not individual, creations.

• Dada and Surrealism

  • Dada and Surrealism were multidisciplinary cultural movements of the European avant-garde that emerged in Zurich and Paris respectively during the time of WWI.
  • Dada was a multi-disciplinary art movement that rejected the prevailing artistic standards by producing "anti-art" cultural works.
  • Like Zurich, New York City was a refuge for writers and artists from World War I.
  • Frenchmen Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia met American artist Man Ray in New York City in 1915.
  • Surrealism was a cultural movement beginning in the 1920s that sprang directly out of Dadism and overlapped in many senses.

• American Painting: The Ashcan School

  • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
  • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism that came into prominence in New York City during the early 20th century and is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
  • Whether it was a portrayal of contemporary culture, or a scenic view of downtown New York City, Realist works depicted a contemporary view of what was happening or what was "real. "
  • These artists were not only depicting Fifth Avenue socialites, but also the lower class and richly textured immigrant cultures.
  • The first known use of the "ashcan" terminology in describing the movement was by Art Young in 1916.

• The Feminist Movement

  • The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns for cultural, political, economic, and social equality for women.
  • The movement's priorities vary among nations and communities.
  • The second wave, generally taking place from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, was concerned with cultural and political inequalities, which feminists perceived as being inextricably linked.
  • Socialist feminism distinguishes itself from Marxist feminism by arguing that women's liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women's oppression.
  • In 2008, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a presidential primary, winning the New Hampshire Democratic primary .

• Art Movements of the 1920s

  • The 1920s was a remarkable period of creativity that brought forth new, bold movements that changed the way the world looked at itself, both externally and internally.
  • In the United States, New York City's Chrysler Building typified the Art Deco style.
  • The movement opposed cultural and intellectual conformity in art and in society in general, usually displaying political affinities with the radical left.
  • Arising from Dada activities during World War I and centered in Paris, Surrealism was a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.
  • Art Deco architectural style in the United States was epitomized by the Chrysler Building in New York City.