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How do different theories explain social dimensions of social movements? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Politics and Society

No single theory explains a social movement whole. Each tradition isolates a different social dimension — strain, perception, organisation, polity, identity, meaning — and treats it as the variable deciding mobilisation.

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  • Which dimension each theory foregrounds
  • The traditions
  • Limits, and the Indian corrective
  • Conclusion

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