POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Occupy Movement, Soil Moisture And Ocean Salinity, Planned Parenthood
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It is a type of group action of large or small individuals where they come together and focus on important matters to them in political or social issues to make or bring a social change. Examples include womens rights, education, freedom, gay rights: a situation where people are working collectively, trying to change the policy but not through the core, different from lobby groups and other institutionalized politics. In liberal societies, social movements are becoming institutionalized. Within these collective actions where people use their resources to get to the objective of the movement. This is because the kkk instigated violence in a collective action against the african. It was very political because the members were elected political members/leaders who wanted to implement racist polices. Elites were trying to preserve their power through this social movement. In mong kok (a city in hk) there were protests.
