A
countermovement in
sociology means a
social movement opposed to another social movement. Whenever one social movement starts up, another group establishes themselves to undermine the previous group. Many social movements start out as an effect of political
activism towards issues that a group disagrees with. “Researchers have used
resource mobilization to study all manner of social and political movements such as
environmentalism,
father's rights groups,
religious movements, and
abortion rights”. The reason for the start of countermovement groups is that people are competing for resources for political influence. Countermovement groups are a part of American society that try to compete for government
legislation to support their own views.