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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social Movement.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Politics and Society

A social movement is a sustained, collective and organised effort by a number of people to bring about, resist or reverse change in some aspect of society. Herbert Blumer called movements collective enterprises to establish a new order of life. Ralph H. Turner and Lewis M. Killian stress sustained action on behalf of change; M.…

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