social movement
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈsoʊʃəl ˈmuːvmənt/
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movimiento social
- What explains the surprising resilience of Egyptian social movements that stand against violence and for humane policies?
- social movement studies
- New social movement
- social movement literature
So you have two opposed social movements as we speak.
- So you have two opposed social movements as we speak.
- No, I think that like any social movement, things have to come in stages, right?
- But now you're using this platform to make a social movement.
- How poignant to read about that at a time when there was no social movement to support her.
- So this three-year, in the past three years, social movement about microblogging really changed local government.
- And the examples of that are cases where there was a social movement.
- Have celebrity spokespeople, embrace social movements.
- And I don't see any kind of social movement that can effectively put a halt to that.
- I learned about social movements, I learned about technical changes, political change.
- Imagine what our world could be if all of our social movements we're infused with these principles, oneness, love, and seva.
Examples
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Since the early 1980s, various social movements have been rapidly on the rise.
Academic text (1992) -
Media coverage of the social movement can aid in education...
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You know, I, I care much more about the social movement itself and about how we make progress.
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No, I think that like any social movement, things have to come in stages, right?
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How do we create the kind of social movements that make change possible?
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So you have two opposed social movements as we speak.
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All the more pity, therefore, that the social movement literature has largely overlooked them.
Academic text (2008) -
NGOs increasingly participate in an indigenous social movement that has spread around the world.
Academic text (2011) -
One way to revitalize the social movements, in particular, may be the creation of new alliances.
Academic text (1999) -
The Women's Suffrage Movement was a significant social movement that fought for women's right to vote.
Synonyms
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3.6
A group of people who work together for a common goal
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3.2
A group of people who work together to change laws or government policy
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3.6
An organized group of workers and unions trying to get better pay and conditions
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3.9
A group of people working together to make social or political change
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4.4
A group of young people who work together for social or political change
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3.5
A group of people who try to change beliefs and practices about faith
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3.9
A group of people who spread new art, music, or ideas that change society
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2.7
An organized effort by workers to improve pay and working conditions
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'social' (relating to society or community) with 'movement' (an organized collective effort or trend). This compositional structure—an organized effort concerning social matters—is common cross-linguistically and thus should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The compound noun social movement comes from a simple image of many people moving together for a cause, with social meaning 'about society' and movement meaning 'people moving together'. That's why social movement now means 'a large, organized group working to change society or politics'.