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Explain in brief the relationship between social movement, collective action and revolution in bringing about social and political changes.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Politics and Society

Collective action is people acting together in pursuit of shared interests (Charles Tilly). A social movement is collective action made durable — M. S. A. Rao defines it by sustained collective mobilisation, organisation and ideology. A revolution, for Theda Skocpol, is a rapid, basic transformation of a society's state and class structures (States and Social…

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  • A continuum of collective challenge
  • How they pass into one another
  • Their distinct contributions to change
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