Social Movements of the Past

What is an organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a specific goal (bring about or impede change) called?

• Social movement

• Alternative Organizing

• Revolution

• Reformation

What is a collective movement that aims to change a particular part of society by working within the system to bring change.

• Revolutionary Social movement

• Alternative Social Movement

• Reactionary Social Movement

• Reformative Social Movement

What is a collective movement that aims overthrow or gain control of the government.

• Social movement

• Alternative Social Movement

• Redemptive Social Movement

• Revolutionary Social Movement

What is the definition of the Social Movement?

• An organized effort by a large group of people to bring about or impede social, political, economic, or cultural change

• A movement that focuses on individual change that impacts a small group of people.

• A collective movement that aims to change the beliefs of individuals (often religious or political)

• A collective movement that aims to change a particular part of society.

Social Movements are long-term conscious effort to either promote or prevent social change.

• True

• False

Which of the following are features of social movements?

• Long-Lasting

• Known Goal

• violence

• Well known structure and organization

• Involving social, political, economic, or cultural issues

Members of the Counterculture Movement were known as what?

• Hippies
• Beatniks
• Yuppies
• Silent Minority

Most of the student protest movements of the 1960's were about which of the following:

• civil rights for African-Americans

• ending the war in Vietnam

• getting rid of material wealth & living off the land

• ending the Cold War

What grew out of the Boomer generation and challenged mainstream society in the 60's?

• Counterculture

• Lost Generation

• Silent Majority

• Hawks

Read the descriptions below.

Helped found the United Farm Workers Organized a national boycott of grapes. Used hunger strikes to draw attention to the plight of migrant workers.

Which person do these descriptions best fit?

• Cesar Chavez

• Betty Friedan

• Rodolfo Gonzales

• Gloria Steinum