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| Long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change |
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| Social movement with a goal to reverse current social trends |
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| Social movements that try to protect from change what they see as society's prevailing values |
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| Social movements that try to improve or revise some part of society through social change |
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| Type of social movement, the goal of which is a total and radical change of the existing social structure |
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| Relative Deprivation Theory |
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| Theory that states that certain people have a lesser portion of social rewards compared to other people or groups |
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| The organization and effective use of resources as essential to social movements |
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| Resource-Mobilization Theory |
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| Theory of social movements that states that even the most ill-treated group with the most just cause will not be able to bring about change without resources |
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