Flashcards: Social movements

Survivalism is a movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who are actively preparing for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales from local to international.

Luddites were 19th-century English textile workers (or self-employed weavers who feared the end of their trade) who protested against newly developed technologies that required fewer skilled workers, primarily between 1811 and 1816.

Open access (OA) refers to online research outputs that are free of all restrictions on access (e.g. access tolls) and free of many restrictions on use (e.g. certain copyright and license restrictions).

Social movements are a type of group action.

Cooperation (sometimes written as coöperation or co-operation) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common or mutual benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit.

Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries which advocated the extension of the "franchise", or the right to vote in public elections, to women.

The International Movement ATD Fourth World is a nonprofit organization which aims towards the eradication of chronic poverty through a human-rights based approach.

Alter-globalization (also known as alternative globalization, alter-mundialization—from the French "alter-mondialisation"—or the global justice movement) is the name of a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they describe as the negative effects of economic globalization, feeling that it often works to the detriment of, or does not adequately promote, human values such as environmental and climate protection, economic justice, labor protection, protection of indigenous cultures, peace, and civil liberties.

Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality.

Leaderless resistance, or phantom cell structure, is a social resistance strategy in which small, independent groups (covert cells), including individuals (a solo cell called a "Lone Wolf"), challenge an established institution such as a law, economic system, social order, government, et cetera.

Student activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change.

The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.

Antisexualism, sex-negativity or antisexuality is opposition or hostility towards sexual behavior and sexuality.

Autonomism or Autonomist Marxism is a set of anti-authoritarian left-wing political and social movements and theories.

The anti-cult movement (abbreviated ACM; sometimes called the countercult movement) opposes any new religious movement (NRM) that they characterize as a cult.

National Hug Day or National Hugging Day is an annual event dedicated to hugging.

Topfreedom is a cultural and political movement seeking changes in laws to allow women to be topless in public places where men are permitted to be barechested, as a form of gender equality.

Human rights movement refers to a nongovernmental social movement engaged in activism related to the issues of human rights.

Peasant movement is a social movement involved with the agricultural policy.

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.

The skeptical movement (also spelled sceptical) is a modern social movement based on the idea of scientific skepticism (also called rational skepticism).

Effective altruism (also referred to as EA) is a philosophy and social movement that applies evidence and reason to determining the most effective ways to improve the world.

The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動) is a pro-democracy political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014.

A retreat is a place of refuge for those in the survivalist subculture or movement.

The anti-nuclear movement in Germany has a long history dating back to the early 1970s when large demonstrations prevented the construction of a nuclear plant at Wyhl.

Social threefolding is a sociological theory suggesting the progressive independence of society's economic, political and cultural institutions.

"Media and democracy" is a set of ideas advocating reforming the mass media, strengthening public service broadcasting, and developing and participating in alternative media and citizen journalism.

Nuclear weapons testing, uranium mining and export, and nuclear power have often been the subject of public debate in Australia, and the anti-nuclear movement in Australia has a long history.