SHS – Understanding Culture Society and Politics

2nd Quarter
WORKSHEET No. 10

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Activity 1

Directions: Create your own Social Movement: Imagine that you will be creating
an organization in your community and of course you will be the leader. In the
table you will try to figure out the issues your organization will wish to address,
its advocacies and the challenges your organization may face in your community.
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POST TEST

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer in the box below. Write your
answer in the blank space before each number.

A. National Level F. Bureaucratization

B. According to Methods of Work: G. Coalescence
Peaceful movements H. success
C. Redemptive social movements I. Repression
D. Local Level J. Emergence
E. Social movement K. Decline
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1. It utilizes techniques such as nonviolent resistance and civil

disobedience. Violent movements resort to violence when seeking social change.

2. Level of movement are those actions that push change in a local

area.

3. Tend to gather participants from specific sectors of the society with

a goal of radically changing the status of individual members. Religious groups and
cults have such impacts.

4. Level of Movement that is bigger in the scope because the movements,

concerns the whole nation or country and it involves national politics or economy.

5. Is a process that involves three elements: the individual, the group,

and the society. Individuals are aware of their personal qualities, characteristics,
and values, enabling them to act according to what they practice or believe in.

6. This stage of a social movement’s life cycle in which strategy is

carried out by formal organizations and trained staff. Also known as formalization.

7. One of the five ways in which social movements decline in which

authorities use violent or coercive tactics to destroy a social movement.

8. A stage of a social movement’s which is characterized by

individualized, but widespread feelings of discontent. Movements in this stage lack
clearly defined strategy for achieving goals and little organization.

9. A stage of a social movement’s life cycle, which is characterized

the coming together of social movement constituents. This stage is marked by
demonstrations and formulation of strategy.

10. This stage usually marks the end of mass mobilization.