Definition of "social movement" [social movement]

• A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "One of the chief reviews of the Catholic social movement is the "Chronique sociale de France""
• "Franco-German War through his protest against the military execution of Abbé Miroy, one of his parish priests, by the Germans in the middle of an armistice; Benoît-Marie Langénieux (1874-1905), one of the most illustrious prelates of the end of the nineteenth century, who took the initiative of leading pilgrimmages of Christian workmen to the Holy See, and thus played a part in the great social movement which culminated in the encyclical "Rerum Novarum"."
• "Under any attempt at classification these strikes belong more to the general social movement than to the industrial conflict, for the strike is an implement used most rashly by unorganized labor who, after they are in difficulties, call upon the trades-unions for organization and direction."