List of social movements
Topic: Social
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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
- Revolutionary movements: see List of revolutions and rebellions
- Religious and spiritual movements: see List of religions and spiritual traditions and List of new religious movements
List
International
- Abolitionist movement
- Alternative movement
- Animal Rebellion
- Animal rights movement
- Anti-capitalism
- Anti-consumerism
- Anti-corporate activism
- Anti-fascism
- Anti-globalization movement
- Anti-jock movement
- Anti-liberalism
- Anti-nuclear movement
- Anti-psychiatry movement
- Anti-vaccination movement
- Anti-war movement
- Anti-work movement
- Arab Spring
- Architectural Uprising
- Autism rights movement
- Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
- Brights movement
- Children's rights movement
- Climate movement
- Conservation movement
- Cooperative movement
- Counterculture movement
- Cultural movement
- Decolonization
- Decretalist
- Decretist
- Disability rights movement
- Earth First!
- Ecofeminism
- Ecomasculinity
- Economy for the Common Good
- Effective altruism
- Environmental justice movement
- Environmental movement
- Esperanto movement
- Ethiopian movement
- Extinction Rebellion
- Fair trade movement
- Feminist movement
- Free culture movement
- Free love
- Free school movement
- Free software movement
- Fridays for Future
- Gaza war protests
- Gen Z protests
- Global citizens movement
- Global justice movement
- Goliards
- Hizmet movement
- Hot Girl Walk
- Human rights movement
- Identitarian movement
- Immigrant rights movement
- Indigenous peoples movement
- Indigenous movements in the Americas
- Labor movement
- LGBT rights opposition
- LGBT social movements
- Mad Pride (psychiatric social movement)
- Masculinism movement
- Men's liberation movement
- Men's rights movement
- Me Too movement
- Multiculturalism
- Neo-Slavism
- Neostoicism
- Nonviolence movement
- Occupy movement
- Organic movement
- Peace movement
- Plogging
- Psychiatric survivors movement
- Reform movements
- Right to health
- Right to life
- Scouting Movement
- Skeptical movement
- Sex-positive movement
- Sex Workers' Rights Movement
- Situationist International
- Slow Food movement
- Slow movement
- Social democracy
- Soviet Jewry Movement
- Student movement
- Temperance movement
- The Zeitgeist Movement
- Veganism
- Via Campesina - 150 million peasants advocating food sovereignty
- Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
- White Power Movement
- Wikimedia movement
- Women's liberation movement
- Women's suffrage
- Workplace spirituality
Austria
- Austro-Slavism
- Galician Russophilia
Brazil
- Landless Workers' Movement (MST)
China
- New Enlightenment
- New Life Movement
- Red guards[1]
Circassia
- National Oath
Croatia
- Illyrian movement
Czechia
- Czech National Revival
Germany
- Berlin movement
- Lebensreform
Greece
- Greece Aganaktismenoi movements
Hong Kong
- Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement
- Umbrella Movement
India
- 2017 pro-jallikattu protests
- India Against Corruption
- Namantar Andolan (Change Movement among Dalits)
- Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Non-cooperation movement
- Salt March (Salt Satyagraha movement)
- Selfie With Daughter
Iran
- White Wednesdays
Ireland
- 20x20 movement
Israel
- Gaza war protests in Israel
Italy
- Guelphs and Ghibellines
Jamaica
- Rastafari movement
Japan
- Freedom and People's Rights Movement
- Taishō Democracy Movement
Malaysia
- Gerakan Harapan Baru (New Hope Movement in Malaysia)
Mexico
- List of Gaza war protests at universities in the Netherlands in 2024
Netherlands
- Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
Pakistan
- Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan
Poland
- Enthronement movement
- Sanation
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
- Black Consciousness Movement
- Landless Peoples Movement (South Africa)
- Rural People's Movement
- South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement
- Treatment Action Campaign - movement struggling for HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa
- Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign South African movement struggling against evictions
South Korea
- 4B movement
- New Right
Sweden
- Gothicism
Taiwan
- Tangwai movement
United Kingdom
- Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Time to Change
United States
- 9/11 Truth movement
- Abolish ICE
- ACT UP
- Alt-right
- Asian American movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Black Power movement
- Chautauqua
- Chicano Movement
- Civil rights movement
- Efficiency movement
- Farm-to-table movement
- Farm Worker Movement
- Gaza war protests in the United States
- Health at Every Size
- Health freedom movement
- Hippie movement
- Indivisible movement
- Lily-white movement
- March For Our Lives movement
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- National Cleanup Day
- Occupy Wall Street
- Pro-choice movement
- Pro-life movement
- Psilocybin decriminalization in the United States
- QAnon
- Rape crisis movement
- Reproductive justice
- Sunrise Movement
- Tea Party movement
- Time's Up (movement)
- Women Against War
- Woman's Exchange Movement
References
- ↑ Yang, Guobin (2000). "The Liminal Effects of Social Movements: Red Guards and the Transformation of Identity". Sociological Forum ([Wiley, Springer]) 15 (3): 379–406. ISSN 08848971. http://www.jstor.org/stable/684803. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
External links
- ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
- Mobilization journal
- Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Changejournal
- Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest
- Interface: a Journal For and About Social Movements
- Social Movements: A Summary of What Works (pdf)
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