Sociology / Unit 10 Soc 1794 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Four Types of Social Movements
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The idea
Aberle's four movement types cross two axes: locus of change (individual vs. supra-individual) and amount of change (partial vs. total) — alternative, redemptive, reformative, transformative.
In practice
Losing weight through diet is alternative; a religious conversion is redemptive; one new policy is reformative; remaking society is transformative.
Where people slip
A movement's aim can shift over its lifespan; reformative goals can radicalize into transformative demands.
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