social movement

Social movement organization: social movement organization is an organizational element of social movement. Social movement organizations often play a coordinating role in social movements, but in fact they do not hire or direct the majority of participants who are members of the wider social movement community. The social movement is a broad union of people connected by a common interest in social change. Social movements can promote certain social changes, but they can also be organized to oppose the social change advocated by other organizations. These movements need not be formally organized and are not considered social movements. Various alliances may function for general reasons, but they are still seen as social movements.

There is a difference between social movement and social movement group (SMO). Social movement organizations are an integral part of formal social movement organizations. However, the SMO may be only a part of a specific social movement. For example, PETA (Animal Ethical Therapist) advocates vegetarian lifestyle and other goals. However, only PETA is not a group advocating vegan diet and lifestyle; for this purpose, there are many other groups that are actively involved (see vegetarians). Therefore, while PETA is an SMO functioning in a wider social movement, social movements may motivate vegetarianism (multiple motivated efforts).

Scholars of social sports have been studying mobilization of actors for a long time and continue to participate in social movement organizations. Recent trends in social movement literature include cultural activities mainly conducted outside social movement organizations. Here, I will use the vegetarian movement to investigate the pattern of participation in this decentralized cultural movement. Like many cultural movements, vegetarians have more members than vegan sports organizations. In this article we focus on vegan irrelevant to vegetarian movement, using vegetarian ethnic interview data. This sample contains two different vegetarian groups (punk subculture group and non-popular culture group) and they are investigating how they define and practice different vegetarianism. Using the relational data approach, I analyzed social networks of these punk and non-punk vegetarians.