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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social movements and social mobility.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Social Movements in Modern India

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Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups between positions in a stratification system — the vocabulary is Pitirim Sorokin's. A social movement, for M. S. A. Rao, is sustained collective mobilisation through formal or informal organisation, guided by ideology and oriented to changing the existing system. The two are linked causally in both…

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  • Mobility as the cause of movements
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