Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Examine how social movements come to an end. Illustrate with examples.
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Movements are episodic, not permanent. Armand L. Mauss (Social Problems as Social Movements, 1975) gave them a natural history running from incipiency through institutionalisation to fragmentation and demise, and Herbert Blumer and Charles Tilly likewise place a decline stage after bureaucratisation. Decline, however, is not a synonym for failure: a movement can die of success…
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- 1. Success and goal attainment
- 2. Institutionalisation — the movement becomes an organisation
- 3. Co-optation
- 4. Repression
- 5. Factionalism
- 6. Exhaustion and encapsulation
- …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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