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 Brasil 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
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)