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The English word ‘movement’ derives from the old French verb movoir, which means to move, stir or impel, and the medieval Latin movimentum. The general English usage of ‘movement’ to designate ‘a series of actions and endeavours of a body of persons for a special object’ (Oxford Dictionary) dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This is still the most widely accepted usage of the term as applied to social phenomena.
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Wilkinson, P. (1971). Concepts of Social Movement. In: Social Movement. Key Concepts in Political Science. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01093-6_1
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