Social movement — Social movements are a type of group action. They are large groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change. Modern Western social … Wikipedia
New Age movement — Movement that spread through occult communities in the 1970s and 80s. It looked forward to a New Age of love and peace and offered a foretaste of the coming era through personal transformation and healing. The movement s strongest supporters were … Universalium
social movement — Introduction loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal, typically either the implementation or the prevention of a change in society s structure or values. Although social movements differ in size, they are all… … Universalium
New social movements — 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… … Wikipedia
New religious movement — A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious community or ethical, spiritual, or philosophical group of modern origin, which has a peripheral place within the dominant religious culture. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may be part of a wider … Wikipedia
New Culture Movement — The New Culture Movement (simplified Chinese: 新文化运动; traditional Chinese: 新文化運動; pinyin: Xīn Wénhuà Yùndòng) of the mid 1910s and 1920s sprang from the disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture following the failure of the Chinese Republic … Wikipedia
New Religious Movement — Introduction the generally accepted term for what is sometimes called, often with pejorative connotations, a “cult.” The term New Religious Movement has been applied to all new faiths that have arisen worldwide over the past several… … Universalium
New towns movement — The new town movement refers to towns that were built after World War Two and that have been purposefully, planned, developed and built as a remedy to overcrowding and congestion in some instances, and to scattered ad hoc settlements in… … Wikipedia
New Documentary Movement — The New Documentary Movement (Xin jilu yundong) began in the early 1990s with a group of independent filmmakers who hoped to reveal a social reality different from that presented in the official or commercial media. To do so, they turned their… … Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
New American Movement — The New American Movement (NAM) was founded in 1971 by a group of leaders of opposition to the Vietnam War to serve as a forum for discussing where and how to redirect their activities. The call to convene was issued by Michael Lerner. Lerner… … Wikipedia
