Social movements are groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on political or social issues.
This list excludes the following:
- Artistic movements: see list of art movements.
- Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements
- Revolutionary movements: see List of revolutions and rebellions
- Religious and spiritual movements: see List of religions and spiritual traditions and List of new religious movements
List
- 20x20 movement
- 9/11 Truth movement
- Abolitionist movement
- ACT UP
- Alternative movement
- Animal Rebellion
- Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Anti-capitalism
- Anti-consumerism
- Anti-corporate activism
- Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement
- Anti-fascism
- Anti-globalization movement
- Anti-jock movement
- Anti-liberalism
- Anti-nuclear movement
- Anti-psychiatry movement
- Anti-war movement
- Anti-work movement
- Anti-vaccination movement
- Alt-right
- Asian American movement
- Autism rights movement movement advocating for the right of people who are considered neurally divergent (anti-psychiatry)
- Black Consciousness Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Black Power movement
- Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
- Brights movement
- Chicano Movement
- Children's rights movement
- Civil rights movement
- Climate movement
- Conservation movement
- Counterculture movement
- Cooperative movement
- Cultural movement
- Decolonization
- Disability rights movement
- Earth First!
- Ecofeminism
- Ecomasculinity
- Economy for the Common Good
- Effective altruism
- Efficiency movement
- Environmental justice movement
- Environmental movement
- Esperanto movement
- Ethiopian movement
- Extinction Rebellion
- Fair trade movement
- Farm-to-table movement
- Farm Worker Movement
- Feminist movement
- Free culture movement
- Free love
- Free school movement
- Free software movement
- LGBT social movements
- Gerakan Harapan Baru (New Hope Movement in Malaysia)
- Global citizens movement
- Global justice movement
- Health at Every Size
- Health freedom movement
- Hippie movement
- Hizmet movement
- Human rights movement
- Identitarian movement
- Immigrant rights movement
- India Against Corruption
- Indigenous peoples movement
- Indigenous movements in the Americas
- 2017 pro-jallikattu protests
- Labor movement
- Landless Peoples Movement (South Africa)
- Landless Workers' Movement (MST), the landless workers' movement in Brazil
- Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan
- Lebensreform
- LGBT rights opposition
- LGBTQ social movements ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements)
- Mad Pride ( psychiatric social movement)
- March For Our Lives movement
- Men's rights movement
- Me Too movement
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- Multiculturalism
- Namantar Andolan (Change Movement among Dalits in India)
- Narmada Bachao Andolan
- National Cleanup Day
- Non-cooperation movement
- Nonviolence movement
- Occupy movement
- Occupy Wall Street
- Organic movement
- Plogging
- Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
- Pro-choice movement
- Pro-life movement
- Psychiatric survivors movement
- Psilocybin decriminalization in the United States
- QAnon
- Rape crisis movement
- Rastafari movement
- Reform movements in the United States
- Reproductive justice
- Right to health
- Right to life
- Rural People's Movement
- Scouting Movement
- Salt March (Salt Satyagraha movement)
- Skeptical movement
- Sex-positive movement
- Sex Workers' Rights Movement
- Slow Food movement
- Slow movement
- Situationist International
- Social democracy
- South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement
- Soviet Jewry Movement
- Student movement
- Sunrise Movement
- Tea Party movement
- Temperance movement
- The Bees Army
- The Zeitgeist Movement
- Time to Change
- Time's Up (movement)
- Treatment Action Campaign - movement struggling for HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa
- Umbrella Movement
- Veganism
- Via Campesina - international peasants movement representing 150 million people, advocating food sovereignty.
- Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
- White Wednesdays
- Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign South African movement struggling against evictions
- White Power Movement
- Wikimedia movement
- Women Against War
- Woman's Exchange Movement
- Women's liberation movement
- Women's suffrage
- Greece Aganaktismenoi movements
External links
- ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
- Mobilization journal
- Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Changejournal
- Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest
- Interface: a Journal For and About Social Movements
- Social Movements: A Summary of What Works (pdf)