Since the 1960's there has been a notable increase in the level of political participation of general populations across the world an example being the civil rights movement in the US and many feminist movements that were active at the time. ... Social Movements can be said to be the 'voice of change'. Politically, social movements actively engage in politics depending on their cause, all social movements have 'causes' which entail what they want to change. ... From this definition we can gather that simply any individual that actively has an opinion on or wants to c...

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