1. Social movements have been a powerful means for ordinary people to participate directly in creating positive social change.
2. There are deeply grounded in our founding values of security, culture, justice, democracy, civil rights, etc.
3. Social movements have raised diverse demands cutting across the strict boundary of environment establishing equality.
4. Most of the social movements are nonviolent and often a distance from individual political parties and are more united under a single cause.
For all these conditions we can appreciate the basic features of the Social Movements.