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Four Types of Social Movements

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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.

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Losing weight through diet is alternative; a religious conversion is redemptive; one new policy is reformative; remaking society is transformative.

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A movement's aim can shift over its lifespan; reformative goals can radicalize into transformative demands.

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