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Is ideology an essential component of a social movement? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples from some contemporary social movements.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Politics and Society

To call ideology an essential component is to claim that a movement ceases to be one without it. M. S. A. Rao does make that claim: a social movement, for him, is constituted by a collective goal, a shared ideology or accepted programme, collective action, and a minimum of organisation and leadership — an agitation…

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  • Movements where ideology is clearly constitutive
  • Movements where ideology is thin, plural or later
  • Assessing the claim
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