In sociology, a social movement opposed to another social movement
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Countermovement" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style.(July 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)
A countermovement in sociology means a social movement opposed to another social movement. Whenever one social movement starts up, another group establishes themselves to undermine the previous group. Many social movements start out as an effect of political activism towards issues that a group disagrees with. “Researchers have used resource mobilization to study all manner of social and political movements such as environmentalism, father's rights groups, religious movements, and abortion rights”.[1] The reason for the start of countermovement groups is that people are competing for resources for political influence. Countermovement groups are a part of American society that try to compete for government legislation to support their own views.
The resource mobilization theory is an important issue in countermovements. “Research mobilization theory was a response to social psychological theories that focused on grievances and viewed movements as collective identities”.[1] This theory suggests that social movements organize their resources to make changes in society that fits in their views. As a social movement starts growing, there are those who oppose their views and in time start countermovements. For example, anti-abortion and abortion rights movements are countermovements to each other. There are countermovements relating to fathers’ rights, religion, and war. These movements and countermovements will never have a resolution so they try to pass their views into government legislation.[1] Countermovements main goal is to oppose the other movement to get their views into the mainstream. Many of these movements try to recruit people to gain popularity and in time gain political support.
In some cases an apparent countermovement group may be crerated deliberately by a party with a financial stake, a process known as Astroturfing. The Global warming countermovement is one example.[2]
^ abcPeckham, Michael. "New Dimensions of Social Movement/Countermovement Interaction: The Case of Scientology and its Internet Critics." Canadian Journal of Sociology 23.4 (1998): 317. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Mar. 2010.
A countermovement in sociology means a social movement opposed to another social movement. Whenever one social movement starts up, another group establishes...
heterosexuality. Some straight flags represent straight pride, a conservative countermovement to gay pride. There is also the straight ally flag, which is intended...
Blue Lives Matter (also known as Police Lives Matter) is a countermovement in the United States that aims to show solidarity with the police. It emerged...
Internet and email, have been used by Animal Rights Movement actors and countermovement actors in a variety of capacities. Radical factions in the movement...
interprets fascism as a "political aesthetic of death" and a vehement countermovement against the increasing rationalism, secularism, and pacifism of the...
"activist road trip", or may occur in response to police oppression or countermovement resistance. New tactics then spread to others through a social process...
water consumption. In an in-depth analysis of the climate change "countermovement", the Coors Affiliated Foundation was listed among the top donors,...
positions with Confucian views. Many scholars believe Taoism arose as a countermovement to Confucianism. The philosophical terms Tao and De are indeed shared...
legitimate issue that we've got to address." Blue Lives Matter is a countermovement in the United States supporting law enforcement officers and advocating...
raves, however, regained importance in the German techno scene as a countermovement to the commercial mass raves in the mid-1990s. In Germany, fans started...
; McMahon, John J.; Lake, Jason (2021-05-05). "Relationships among countermovement vertical jump performance metrics, strategy variables, and inter-limb...
those in the 19th century and early 20th century movements. These countermovements were in response to some women's growing demands, which were perceived...
original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023. Blue Lives Matter countermovement, which emerged in 2014 as a rebuttal to Black Lives Matter and gained...
information. King Constantine II left Greece after the 13th December Countermovement. However, the 21st of April Regime officially abolished the monarchy...
black belt in 2011. Calaway is a supporter of the Blue Lives Matter countermovement, which advocates for protection of police officers. In November 2020...
combined were the largest funders of what he calls "the climate change countermovement" in the US between 2003 and 2013. Brulle estimated that by 2009, approximately...
counter narrative to #BlackLivesMatter. People who identify with this countermovement use this hashtag to represent what they call “anti-identity” identity...
Aaron M. (2015). "Chapter 10: Challenging Climate Change: The Denial Countermovement". In Dunlap, Riley E.; Brulle, Robert J. (eds.). Climate Change and...
Retrieved 7 October 2019. "Robert Brulle: Inside the Climate Change "Countermovement"". Frontline. PBS. 23 October 2012. Archived from the original on 24...
Breuer. It quickly became regarded as a cliché and inspired a kind of countermovement that portrayed Martians as meek in works like the 1933 short story...
Finsterlin, Feininger et al. Edited in Amsterdam and Santpoort, 1918–1932. Countermovement to the De Stijl movement in 1917. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
by-election. "BRINGING BACK THE RIGHT: TRADITIONAL FAMILY VALUES AND THE COUNTERMOVEMENT POLITICS OF THE FAMILY COALITION PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA". December...
"fictitious commodities": land, labor, and money. Second, a reactionary "countermovement" arises whereby society attempts to re-embed the economy through the...
Global Information
