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Collective Behavior and Social Change: Introduction to Exercise 2 - Social movements
What You Will Learn

This exercise discusses the following aspects of social movements
  • Types of social movements
  • Some causes of social movements
  • Stages of social movements
Key Terms


alternative social movement
deprivation theory
mass society
mass-society theory
progressive movement
reactionary movement


redemptive social movement
reformative social movement
relative deprivation
resource-mobilization theory
revolutionary social movement
social movement

Click on a term for the definition and Spanish translation.
What You Will Do

Read each passage and answer the questions that follow by clicking on the correct choice. If you choose the wrong answer, try again. The Answer box at the bottom of the choices will tell you if your answer is correct.
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