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social movement


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A large number of people who act together in order to pursue some shared objective, such as environmentalism.

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Social Movements
in Encyclopedia of Social Work (20) Length: 3464 words
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in The New Oxford Companion to Law Length: 1102 words
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in Oxford Companion to Australian Politics Length: 1333 words
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in A Dictionary of Sociology (3 rev) Length: 1112 words

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