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Research draft

social movement

vr.tr.social-movement · ACT.PRC

Let an agent describe social movements neutrally by goals, participants, methods and history, and distinguish movements from organisations within them.

Thing Registry Activities and processes

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent describe social movements neutrally by goals, participants, methods and history, and distinguish movements from organisations within them.

A loosely organised but sustained collective effort by many people to bring about or resist social, political or cultural change, through campaigns, protest and advocacy.

What it is for: Changing laws, norms and institutions through collective action.

It can be join and support it; study its history and effects; report on it, accurately and fairly; engage with it, as governments and organisations do.

Distinguishing features

Collective and sustained

Aims at social change or resistance to it

Loosely organised, with many organisations

Uses protest, advocacy and culture

What it looks like

Marches, campaigns, symbols, parades and online activity; organisations and networks behind them.

How it is recognised

Symbols, slogans and events such as parades

Organisations and activists associated with it

The movement is broader than any organisation

Related models

includes - organisations

nonprofit organization

uses - methods

protest

aims to change - goals

law and norm

is confused with - contests elections

political party

In practice

Families and kinds

civil rights and disability rights movements

labour movements

environmental movements

linguistic rights movements

religious movements

urban reform movements such as the garden city movement

Standards and regulation

Rights of assembly and expression under human rights law

Public order law on protests

Failure modes and hazards

Partisan or distorted descriptions

Conflating a movement with its most extreme members

Exposing activists to risk

Also called

The Purple Paradelinguistic rights activistmission sui iurisformer mission sui iurisgarden cityGarden City in StockholmGovernment inventory locomotivesChristian missionary organizationUnderground organizationZone to Defendlabor movementChristian missionworkers' Esperanto movementlabour movement in Hong Konglabor movement in KoreaShuntōtrade unionismworkerismworkers' sportSwedish labour movementhome missionJesuit reductioncivilizing missionshort-term missionmedical missionsparish missionJesuit missionsCatholic missionChristianization of the Slavsnon-binary movementAntifa movement in Franceguerrilla organizationChurch Movementstudent movementLGBT student movementworkers' Esperanto movement in FranceDe LeonismGreen syndicalismworkers' sport in GermanyJesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangüé

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Goals What it seeks.

Goals define a movement.

Aims

Stated goals.

Aims

Stated goals.

  1. What does the movement seek, in its own words? provenance
  2. Have its goals changed over time? provenance

Opponents

Counter-movements.

Opposition

Opposition.

  1. Who opposes it, and why? provenance
  2. How are both sides represented fairly? action
Participants Who is involved.

Participants and organisations differ.

Organisations

Groups within.

Organisations

Organisations involved.

  1. Which organisations are part of it? provenance
  2. Who speaks for it? boundary

Support base

Supporters.

Support

Who supports it.

  1. Who supports it, and how many? measurement
  2. How is that measured? provenance
Methods How it acts.

Methods shape public perception and legal status.

Tactics

Protest, advocacy, culture.

Tactics

Methods used.

  1. Which methods does it use? definition
  2. Are they lawful here? boundary

Events

Key events.

Events

Key events.

  1. What were its key events? provenance
  2. How were they reported? provenance
Outcomes What it achieved.

Effects must be judged with evidence.

Effects

Changes achieved.

Effects

Achievements.

  1. What changes did the movement contribute to? provenance
  2. How strong is the causal evidence? measurement

Safety

Protecting participants.

Safety

Risks to participants.

  1. Could naming participants put them at risk? boundary
  2. What should be withheld? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should movements be instances with timelines?
  • How should agents describe contested movements neutrally?
  • The registry entry has merged unrelated aliases such as locomotives; should they be removed?
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