mass movement
People acting together
Mass movement refers to large-scale collective action by ordinary people seeking social or political change: the civil rights mass movement, a mass movement against corruption.
The term emphasizes breadth of participation rather than elite leadership.
In geology, mass movement (or mass wasting) is the downslope displacement of rock, soil, or debris under gravity—landslides, mudflows, and avalanches.
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- street protestPublic demonstration against authority
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
march · rally · civil rights · social change · crowd · flash mob · mobilization · grassroots · avalanche · landslide · rock slide · erosion · mudslide · debris flow · collective · solidarity · activist · populist
- digestionstomach acid, swallowing, digesting, chewing, digestion
- RevolutionsFrench Revolution, Russian Revolution, American Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Mexican Revolution
- colon functionwater absorption, peristalsis, defecation
- Gut Motilityperistalsis, motility, segmentation, propulsion, churning
- herd behaviorherd mentality, bandwagon effect, conformism, peer pressure, following the crowd
- Totalitarianismtotalitarianism, one-party state, one-party rule, dictatorship, single-party state
mass movementpalace coup
Overthrow by regime insiders
backroom deal · military junta · executive order · judicial ruling · junta
mass movementstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
gradualism · incrementalism · quietism · demobilization · inertia
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