redemptive social movements
(noun)
A redemptive social movement is radical in scope but focused on the individual.
Examples of redemptive social movements in the following topics:
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Types of Social Movements
- Social movements occur when large groups of individuals or organizations work for or against change in social and/or political matters.
- Social movements can be aimed at change on an individual level, e.g.
- The diagram below illustrates how a social movement may either be alternative, redemptive, reformative or revolutionary based on who the movement strives to change and how much change the movement desires to bring about .
- Violent movements resort to violence when seeking social change.
- Based on who a movement is trying to change and how much change a movement is advocating, Aberle identified four types of social movements: redemptive, reformative, revolutionary and alternative.
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Examples of Social Movements
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Marcus Garvey
- Marcus Garvey, a prominent Jamaican, led a Back-to-Africa movement that promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
- Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy, known as Garveyism, which focused on the complete and unending redemption of the continent of Africa by people of African ancestry, both at home and abroad.
- Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement, which proclaims Garvey a prophet.
- In May 1917, Garvey and 13 others formed the first UNIA division outside Jamaica and began advancing the idea of social, political, and economic freedom for black people.
- A movement of black opposition to Garvey that came to be known as the “Garvey Must Go” Campaign aimed to reveal Garvey as a fraud.
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The Rise of Garveyism
- The Back-to-Africa movement promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
- His philosophy, known as Garveyism, was an aspect of black nationalism that focused on the complete, total, and never-ending redemption of the continent of Africa by people of African ancestry, at home and abroad.
- Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement (which proclaims Garvey as a prophet).
- In May 1917, Garvey and 13 others formed the first UNIA division outside Jamaica and began advancing ideas to promote social, political, and economic freedom for blacks.
- Describe Marcus Garvey's advancement of a Pan-African philosophy and his support of a Back-to-Africa movement.
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Social Movements
- Sociologists draw distinctions between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
- A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
- Thus, promoting veganism would be considered the social movement, while PETA would be considered a particular SMO (social movement organization) working within the broader social movement.
- It is interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
- Discover the difference between social movements and social movement organizations, as well as the four areas social movements operate within
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Introduction
- Social movements are any broad social alliances of people who are connected through their shared interest in blocking or affecting social change.
- Social movements do not have to be formally organized.
- A distinction is drawn between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
- A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
- It is also interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
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Types of Social Movements
- Aberle described four types of social movements based upon two characteristics: (1) who is the movement attempting to change and (2) how much change is being advocated.
- Social movements can be aimed at change on an individual level (e.g., AA) or change on a broader, group or even societal level (e.g., anti-globalization).
- Social movements can also advocate for minor changes (e.g., tougher restrictions on drunk driving; see MADD) or radical changes (e.g., prohibition).
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The Stages of Social Movements
- For Tilly, social movements are a major vehicle for ordinary people's participation in public politics.
- He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups.
- Social movements are not eternal.
- 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.
- Discuss the process and purpose of social movements, defined by Blumer, Mauss and Tilly
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New Social Movement theories
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New Social Movements
- 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 .
- Secondly, these movements are significantly different from previous social movements of the industrial economy.
- The most noticeable feature of new social movements is that they are primarily social and cultural and only secondarily, if at all, political.
- Hence, new social movements are understood as "new," because they are first and foremost social, unlike older movements which mostly have an economic basis.
- 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.