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Highlight prerequisites of social movement. Bring out the difference between social movement and revolution.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Politics and Society

A social movement is a sustained, collective and organised effort to promote or resist change (Ralph H. Turner and Lewis M. Killian). A revolution, in Theda Skocpol's words, is a rapid, basic transformation of a society's state and class structures, carried out partly through revolts from below (States and Social Revolutions, 1979). The two lie…

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  • Prerequisites of a social movement
  • Social movement and revolution compared
  • What the comparison reveals
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