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Write short note: Reformative social movements.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Politics and Society

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Reformative (or reformist) movements seek to alter a part of the social order while accepting its legitimacy as a whole. The term is David F. Aberle's (The Peyote Religion among the Navaho, 1966), who classified movements by two criteria — whether the locus of change is the individual or the social order, and whether the…

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