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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social movement as an expression of protest.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Politics and Society

Protest begins as dissent, a disagreement with prevailing arrangements. It becomes protest and agitation when dissent is declared openly and deprivation is shared. It becomes a social movement when protest is sustained, organised and guided by an ideology. A movement is therefore protest made durable. M. S. A. Rao saw movements as rooted in relative…

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  • Why movements express protest
  • Indian movements as protest
  • Protest is necessary but not sufficient
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