The term ‘social movement’ is used to denote various forms of collective efforts to bring about change in social institutions or to build a new society.
It is not easy to put social movement into a single category.
Social movements have been classified by different sociologists based on their characteristics.
Analytically, there are four types of social movement as follows:
(1) Reformative Social Movement,
(2) Revolutionary Social Movement,
(3) Resistance Social Movement and
(4) Protest Social Movement.