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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social change and social movement.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Politics and Society

Social change is the continuous, largely unplanned alteration of social structure and culture — the aggregate outcome of countless individual and collective actions across time. A social movement is one specific kind of collective action: deliberate, goal-directed, organised and sustained, aimed at promoting or resisting change. M. N. Srinivas's Sanskritisation and Westernisation are processes of…

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  • Movements as agents of change
  • Change as the cause of movements
  • Why the equation is not simple
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