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A large informal grouping of organizations and self-identifying persons focused on specific social or political issues, problems or questions. Examples include the [[abolition movement]], [[First Great Awakening|first]], [[Second Great Awakening|second]], [[Third Great Awakening|third]] and [[Fourth Great Awakening|fourth]] Great Awakenings, the [[Civil Rights Movement]] and a broad assortment of [[New Social Movement]]s.
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Contentious performances, public displays and advocacy campaigns by ordinary people to assert collective claims for attention, redress of grievances and change, and the voluntary associations, formal organizations and emergent institutions that coordinate and direct them.

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A definition or brief description of Social movement.

Contentious performances, public displays and advocacy campaigns by ordinary people to assert collective claims for attention, redress of grievances and change, and the voluntary associations, formal organizations and emergent institutions that coordinate and direct them.

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