Social Movements
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out, resist or undo a social change. It is a type of group action and may involve individuals, organizations or both. Definitions of the term are slightly varied. Social movements have been described as "organizational structures and strategies that may empower oppressed populations to mount effective challenges and resist the more powerful and advantaged elites". They represent a method of social change from the bottom within nations.Political science and sociology …
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GPO: United States Government Publishing Office · 2020
"January 2020." Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (USIP, viewed December 28, 2020).
AAI: The Africa-America Institute · 13 June 2016 English
By Melissa Howell For South Africans, 2016 marks the victories of two student-led social movements. June 16th marks the 40th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, an action that high school students took …
2016 marks the victories of two student-led social movements. June 16th marks the 40th anniversary of the …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English
Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre in Leiden. This research concentrates on the United Democratic Front and …
Press, 1986, 266 p . Swilling, M . "Urban social movements under apartheid", in: Cah. d'etud. Afr., vol …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English
This article discusses the United Democratic Front and township revolt in South Africa
the cities . Secondly, South Africa's urban social movements are also the constituent parts of a national … unionism in the workplace (39), local urban social movements have become inextricably tied to the national …
Laws.Africa · 3 November 2006 English
Portfolio Assessment in AWL. > Learning in Social Movements. United Kingdom: There is a close match between …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 May 2000 English
alternative based on collective actors and discourse, focused on three casual factors - oppositional social movements, changing state-society relations, and civil society institutions - which politicize collective …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1998 English
Thesis has been submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, University of Natal, Durban, 1998. According to the author, his study uses the …
increasingly assuming leadership in numerous social movements such as schools, churches, trade unions … political domination, and where there is a lack of social movements in civil society, a frontal attack on the … bourgeois societies. There are numerous social movements engaging in popular democratic struggles that …
MSU: Michigan State University · 1996
This paper examines some of the dominant social movements in Nigerian politics since independence; the causes and character of the struggles waged by them - students, workers, peasants and the Nigerian …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1994 English
Thesis has been submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal, Durban, 1994. According to the author, his study explores the relationship …
related matters. The role played by the 13 social movements, for example, was particularly important …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1992 English
A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development Unit). The aim of this dissertation is an …
facts: South Africans experienced the rise of social movements as the result of contradictions within state … the paper focuses on the role ~ayed by urban social movements, albeit as formidable antagonists, in shaping … this research), is interlinked with the urban social-movements. Their emergence in the 1980s was a direct … way to its democratization. In short, urban social movements had been the backbone 01 the urban struggles … the Recapturing of the Role Played by Urban Social Movements in the evolvement of the housing policies …
