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What social conditions cause a social movement? Explain with illustrations, the career of a social movement.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Politics and Society

Discontent is universal; movements are not. The sociological question is therefore which social conditions convert grievance into sustained collective action, and what career — the sequence of stages — that action then follows. M. S. A. Rao answers the first with three factors; Herbert Blumer's natural history answers the second.

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  • Social conditions that cause movements
  • The career of a social movement
  • Limits of a stage model
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