Social psychology and social movements: a contextualized review

The new social movements are expressed in the form of mobilizations known as occupations or marches, in order to demarcate ideological and/or political orientations. Marches for the rights of women over their bodies (Slutwalk), of the rural field workers (March of the Daisies), of the black population (Zumbi March), of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT Pride Parades), of religious groups (March for Jesus), for the liberalization of drug use (Marijuana March), are increasingly visible, and more than to configure a framework of massive movement in defense of ideologies, belief systems or rights, they can be understood as psychosocial phenomena that promote the strengthening of degraded social identities and the reconstruction of historically discriminated social groups. They are collective actions in the public space of streets that maintain a dynamic and conflicting relationship between groups and society, claiming full life, in the streets. This literature review aims to present perspectives and methods of the Social Psychology faced to social movements, providing as background for the contextualized analysis of the application of such knowledges and "ways to do", mobilizations based on the dimensions of gender, sexual orientation and race/ethnicity held in contemporary Brazil.