Abstract

MENDOZA GARCIA, Jorge. Social Movements: Between Resistance and Confrontation, between Private and Public. Polis [online]. 2006, vol.2, n.1, pp.179-215. ISSN 2594-0686.

In a recent time, groups turned into social movements which have acted according to two kinds of mechanisms: a) resistance and b) confrontation; and at two levels: 1) private and 2) public. There are movements that only operate in the resistance field, in a private level; also, there are those which operate and move from one mechanism to another, from resistance to confrontation and viceversa. Such forms can be argued through social psychology and be exposed as dynamics that operate depending on the specific situation and on the context. This article analyzes such psychosocial shifting dynamics, still used by modern social movements and which do not appear to be modified in a next future.

Keywords : Social movements; psychosocial dynamic; resistance; confrontation; private; public.

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