Social resistance is an academic concept and field of study within the social sciences that investigates the diverse practices, strategies, and dynamics by which individuals, groups, or communities challenge, oppose, or subvert dominant power structures, norms, and systems. This concept encompasses overt collective action, non-compliance, and subtle everyday forms of contestation, analyzing their emergence, characteristics, effectiveness, and significance in shaping social change, maintaining inequalities, or negotiating agency within relations of power.