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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Ideology and Strategy of Social Movement.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Politics and Society

Ideology is the set of ideas by which a movement names an injustice, prescribes a remedy and justifies action; strategy is the plan by which it converts those ideas into pressure on an adversary. M. S. A. Rao lists ideology, collective mobilisation, organisation and an orientation of change as the constituents of a social movement.…

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