Social movements are groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on political or social issues.

This list excludes the following: Artistic movements: see list of art movements. Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements Revolutionary movements: see List of revolutions and rebellions Religious and spiritual movements: see List of religions and spiritual traditions and List of new religious movements

List

International

Abolitionist movement Alternative movement Animal Rebellion Animal rights movement Anti-capitalism Anti-consumerism Anti-corporate activism Anti-fascism Anti-globalization movement Anti-jock movement Anti-liberalism Anti-nuclear movement Anti-psychiatry movement Anti-vaccination movement Anti-war movement Anti-work movement Arab Spring Architectural Uprising Autism rights movement Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Brights movement Children's rights movement Climate movement Conservation movement Cooperative movement Counterculture movement Cultural movement Decolonization Decretalist Decretist Disability rights movement Earth First! Ecofeminism Ecomasculinity Economy for the Common Good Effective altruism Environmental justice movement Environmental movement Esperanto movement Ethiopian movement Extinction Rebellion Fair trade movement Feminist movement Free culture movement Free love Free school movement Free software movement Fridays for Future Gaza war protests Gen Z protests Global citizens movement Global justice movement Goliards Hizmet movement Hot Girl Walk Human rights movement Identitarian movement Immigrant rights movement Indigenous peoples movement Indigenous movements in the Americas Labor movement LGBT rights opposition LGBT social movements Mad Pride (psychiatric social movement) Masculinism movement Men's liberation movement Men's rights movement Me Too movement Multiculturalism Neo-Slavism Neostoicism Nonviolence movement Occupy movement Organic movement Peace movement Plogging Psychiatric survivors movement Reform movements Right to health Right to life Scouting Movement Skeptical movement Sex-positive movement Sex Workers' Rights Movement Situationist International Slow Food movement Slow movement Social democracy Soviet Jewry Movement Student movement Temperance movement The Zeitgeist Movement Veganism Via Campesina - 150 million peasants advocating food sovereignty Voluntary Human Extinction Movement White Power Movement Wikimedia movement Women's liberation movement Women's suffrage Workplace spirituality

Austria

Austro-Slavism Galician Russophilia

Brazil

Landless Workers' Movement (MST)

China

New Enlightenment New Life Movement Red guards

Circassia

National Oath

Croatia

Illyrian movement

Czechia

Czech National Revival

Germany

Berlin movement Lebensreform

Greece

Greece Aganaktismenoi movements

Hong Kong

Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement Umbrella Movement

India

2017 pro-jallikattu protests India Against Corruption Namantar Andolan (Change Movement among Dalits) Narmada Bachao Andolan Non-cooperation movement Salt March (Salt Satyagraha movement) Selfie With Daughter

Iran

White Wednesdays

Ireland

20x20 movement

Israel

Gaza war protests in Israel

Italy

Guelphs and Ghibellines

Jamaica

Rastafari movement

Japan

Freedom and People's Rights Movement Taishō Democracy Movement

Malaysia

Gerakan Harapan Baru (New Hope Movement in Malaysia)

Mexico

List of Gaza war protests at universities in the Netherlands in 2024

Netherlands

Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca

Pakistan

Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan

Poland

Enthronement movement Sanation

Russia

Going to the People Pochvennichestvo Russian nihilist movement Slavophilia Smenovekhovtsy Westernizer

Saudi Arabia

The Bees Army

South Africa

Black Consciousness Movement Landless Peoples Movement (South Africa) Rural People's Movement South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement Treatment Action Campaign - movement struggling for HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign South African movement struggling against evictions

South Korea

4B movement New Right

Sweden

Gothicism

Taiwan

Tangwai movement

United Kingdom

Anti-Apartheid Movement Time to Change

United States

9/11 Truth movement Abolish ICE ACT UP Alt-right Asian American movement Black Lives Matter Black Power movement Chautauqua Chicano Movement Civil rights movement Efficiency movement Farm-to-table movement Farm Worker Movement Gaza war protests in the United States Health at Every Size Health freedom movement Hippie movement Indivisible movement Lily-white movement March For Our Lives movement Mothers Against Drunk Driving National Cleanup Day Occupy Wall Street Pro-choice movement Pro-life movement Psilocybin decriminalization in the United States QAnon Rape crisis movement Reproductive justice Sunrise Movement Tea Party movement Time's Up (movement) Women Against War Woman's Exchange Movement

References

External links ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Mobilization journal Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Changejournal Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest Interface: a Journal For and About Social Movements Social Movements: A Summary of What Works (pdf)