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During the last couple of decades of the 20th century, social movements are under a great transformation in terms of their actors and action patterns in parallel with the globalizing world. This change has reflected the historically corresponding transformation of the public sphere. In this essay, the relation between the recent transformation of public sphere and social movements within the Habermasian public sphere model is investigated. According to Habermasian public sphere approach, the conflicts in society has appeared at the points of the seam between “system” and “life-world” through the transforming public sphere. The transformation of life-world and public sphere caused to re-shaped of social movement agencies as changing the discussion methods, negotiation styles, and reasoning groups. Hence, this new agent groups take role of the founders of “new social movements”. In Habermasian approach, the relation between public opinion-public sphere- state- private sphere and the relation networks between system- life world has been transformed. This transformation has re-shaped the nucleus of social movements. Not only agents but also the subjects of social movements has changed. New social movements are no longer restricted within the public sphere, but they overspread to the points of the seam between “system” and “life-world”. The conflict between the capital-labor class leading social movements has changed from economic reasons to actions and discursive groups appearing around the identity and life-style within the   “emancipatory” or the “resistance- withdrawal” potentials. The new social movements holding these potentials also cause a new transformation in public sphere and public opinion.

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