social unrest
Public disorder brewing
Social unrest is widespread public discontent expressed through protests, demonstrations, riots, or civil disobedience.
It typically emerges when groups feel their grievances—economic, political, or social—aren't being addressed: The price hikes sparked social unrest across the country.
The term often appears in news reports and government assessments of stability.
- street protestsPublic political demonstrations
- blockadesBarriers preventing passage
- political instabilityFragile governmental conditions
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- inflationSustained price level increase
boycotts · civil disobedience · sit-ins · inequality · class struggle · grassroots organizing · authoritarianism · oppression · protests · recession · poverty · general strike · violence · institutional reform · economic disparity · economic disruption · regime change · power vacuum
- global issuesclimate change, water scarcity, inequality, pandemics, poverty
- business risksmarket risk, competition, data breach, cyberattack, recession
- civil unrestriot, riots, rioting, mob, uprising
- social conflictclass conflict, class struggle, class warfare, class war, power struggles
- Communist PolandCommunist era, People's Republic, Solidarity, Walesa, state surveillance
- fallen empiresRoman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Union, British Empire
social unrestsocial stability
Absence of societal turmoil
civil order · public order · peace · social harmony · tranquility
social unrestacquiescence
Unresisting acceptance
social conformity · obedience · submission · docility · passivity