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In what respect is the new social movement new in nature? Discuss.

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  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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The label new social movements (NSMs) was coined for the civil-rights, student, feminist, ecological, peace and gay-liberation mobilisations that spread across Western societies after the 1960s. Their "newness" was defined against the old labour and socialist movements, whose base was class and whose goal was state power.

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