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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Concept of social movement.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Politics and Society

The term entered sociology with Lorenz von Stein's History of the French Social Movement from 1789 to the Present (1850). Ralph H. Turner and Lewis M. Killian define a social movement as a collectivity acting with some continuity to promote or resist change in the society of which it is part. M. S. A. Rao…

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