Rose (1982) social movements refers to a deliberate voluntary effort to organize individuals to act in concert and thereby achieve a strong enough group influence to make or block change as stipulated by a German sociologist Lorenz Von Stein in his book “socialist and communist movements since the 3rd revolution” .People join social movements because of, they will be deprived of what they must obtain, the issue of social structures, feeling of insignificant or socially detached , detoriation of their culture and the fact that they will be angered about how the resources are mobilized. These reasons are further supported by social movement’s theories which are derivation theory, Marxist theory, mass social theory, culture theory and resource mobilization theory. These theories to social movements namely, alternative, redemptive, reformative and revolutionary social movement as highlighted by Macionis and Plummer (2008)
To start with, Garner (1996) people join social movements due to relative or complete deprivation .this is supported by the deprivation theory. The theory states that conscious feelings of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actuality cause to join social movements as postulated by Rose (1982). As people are being deprived of something to which they believe to be entitled to, this lead people to be discounted due to this discontent which they feel when they compare their positions to others and they realize that they have less of what they believe themselves to be entitled than those around them. Robert k Morto used French sociologist Emile Durkheim concept of anomie, deprivation theory that people who are deprived of things deemed valuable in society wether, money, justice, status or previledges join social movements with the hope of redressing their grievances. For example in 2008 the south Africans join a social movement to attack the Zimbabweans in south Africa as they feel like they were now being deprived...