Organized collective activities that bring about or resist fundamental changes in an existing group or society

Aims to change individuals, encourage individuals to change their outlook in life, and beliefs.

Type of political movement, it tries to block social change or reverse social changes that have already been achieved.

Goes one large step further than a reform movement in seeking to “overthrow the existing government” and bring about a new one and even a new way of life.

Focuses on the capabilities and resources of aggrieved groups

Considered the core theory of social movements and how they mobilize ( work to create change)

Social and cultural explanation of the development of social movement, links culture, ideology, and identity. It is engaged in political and social conflict.

It is engaged in class conflict.

Develop when people who lack established social ties are mobilized into social movements. It argues that with industrialization and subsequent social changes, people have become isolated and alienated

The concept that persons may feel deprived of some desirable thing relative to their own past, other persons or groups, or some other social category.