North Haledon, New Jersey. North Haledon is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 8,417, reflecting an increase of 497 (+6.3%) from the 7,920 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 67 (-0.8%) from the 7,987 counted in the 1990 Census.
1 A social movement is an organized group that acts consciously to promote or resist change through collective action (Goldberg, 1991). 2  Because social movements have not become institutionalized and are outside the political mainstream, they offer outsiders an opportunity to have their voices heard.
A social movement is a type of group action. Social movements can be defined as organizational structures and strategies that may empower oppressed populations to mount effective challenges and resist the more powerful and advantaged elites. They are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues. In other words, they carry out, resist, or undo a social change. They provide a way of social change from the bottom within na