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Introduction to New Social Movements

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Defensive NSMs
NSMs which are concern with something or someone are called NSMs. For example NSMs committed to protecting the and NSMs which seek to protect people from perceived threats such as power.

Offensive NSMs
Offensive NSMs are concerned with promoting and issues. For instance gay rights groups, anti groups, human rights groups.

Who Supports NSMs
The main group who supports NSMs are middle class people between the ages of 16-30 who tend to work in the and caring services (nurses, teachers social workers etc.)

Structure of NSMs
Unlike "old politics" NSMs tend to lack , bureaucracy and . They tend to be loose knit organisations.

Theories of NSMs
Marxists suggest the growth of NSMs is a reaction to the shallow commercialism of mature consumer .
Post modernists suggest that NSMs are a symptom that the old politics of and is being supplanted by a new politics of issues and

Globalisation
Globalisation is the process by which national boundaries are becoming important. For instance a nation’s control over its own has been diminished with the emergence of the global economy. Nation states have diminished in importance with the emergence of organisation such as the EC, companies and corporations such as McDonalds and now have a global presence. NSMs tend to focus on the issues which are by products of these trends. Many NSMs have a global .

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