Many social movements start out as an effect of political activism towards issues that a group disagrees with.
Countermovement groups are a part of American society that try to compete for government legislation to support their own views.
[1] This theory suggests that social movements organize their resources to make changes in society that fits in their views.
In some cases an apparent countermovement group may be crerated deliberately by a party with a financial stake, a process known as Astroturfing.
Even with scientific facts and statistics that global warming exists, there are still groups that disagree that our environment is changing.
Many of these skeptics are blaming environmentalist for stopping human progress to make standard of living rise.
[4] (p. 723) With the widespread understanding that domestic violence is a serious problem in the United States and elsewhere, the BWM has found public support to create “tougher penalties against offenders and public vigilance against potential batterers, including fathers from dissolving families”[4] (p. 723).
“Sociodemographic analyses indicate that individuals who disapprove of abortion are usually committed to organized religion, such as Roman Catholicism or fundamentalist Protestants, are usually very traditional/conservative with regard to women’s role in life, and are less educated than those who are pro-abortion”.
Both of these countermovements try to use emotional appeal by “abortion advocates tie their cause to the importance of ‘choice’, while anti-abortion activist point out the significance of protecting all forms of life”.