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Pick a social movement to discuss

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Pick a social movement to discuss. 

A) Briefly describe the social movement in your own words.

B) What type of movement is/was it (revolutionary/reform, instrumental/expressive)?  Explain your answer.

C) Apply one microsocial or macrostructural explanation of social movements to your chosen movement.  How does this explanation account for the origins of this social movement?

D) Using Smelser's "types of responses by the authorities to social movements," explain the outcomes of this social movement.