List of social movements

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 of movements

• 9/11 Truth movement
• Animal rights movement
• Anti-Apartheid Movement
• Anti-bullying movement
• Anti-capitalism
• Anti-consumerism
• Anti-corporate activism
• Anti-fascism
• Anti-jock movement
• Anti-nuclear movement
• Anti-psychiatry movement
• Anti-war movement
• Anti-globalization movement
• Anti-vaccination movement
• Black Consciousness Movement
• Black Lives Matter
• Black Power movement
• Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
• Brights movement
• Charismatic Movement
• Chicano Movement
• Children's rights movement
• Civil rights movement
• Conservation movement
• Counterculture movement
• Cooperative movement
• Cultural movement
• Disability rights movement
• Ecofeminism
• Economy for the Common Good
• Effective altruism
• Efficiency movement
• Environmental justice movement
• Environmental movement
• Esperanto movement
• Ethiopian movement
• Fair trade movement
• Farm-to-table movement
• Farm Worker Movement
• Feminist movement
• Free culture movement
• Free love
• Free software movement
• Gay rights movement
• Gerakan Harapan Baru (New Hope Movement in Malaysia)
• Global citizens movement
• Global justice movement
• Health at Every Size
• Hippie movement
• Human rights movement
• India Against Corruption
• Indigenous peoples movement
• Indigenous movements in the Americas
• Incel Movement
• 2017 pro-jallikattu protests
• Ku Klux Klan
• Labor movement
• Landless Peoples Movement (South Africa)
• Landless Workers' Movement (MST), the landless workers' movement in Brasil
• Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan
• Lebensreform
• LGBTQ social movements (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements)
• Mad Pride
• Men's rights movement
• Me Too movement
• MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
• Namantar Andolan (Change Movement among Dalits in India)
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Non-cooperation movement
• Nonviolence movement
• Neurodiversity movement advocating for the right of people who are considered neurally divergent
• Occupy movement
• Occupy Wall Street
• Organic movement
• Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
• Pro-choice movement
• Pro-life movement
• Psychiatric survivors movement
• Rastafari
• Reform movements in the United States
• Reproductive justice
• Right to life
• Rural People's Movement
• Salt March (Otherwise Known as the Salt Satyagraha movement)
• Self-Reliant Group (SRG) movement
• Skeptical movement
• Sex-positive movement Movement
• Sex Workers' Rights Movement
• Slow Food movement
• Slow movement
• Situationist International
• Social democracy
• South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement
• Student movement
• Tea Party movement
• Temperance movement
• 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
• Wikimedia movement
• Women Against War
• Women's liberation movement
• Women's suffrage movement
• World Cleanup Day

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)