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Write short note: Structure of a social movement.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Politics and Society

A crowd has no structure; a social movement does. M. S. A. Rao's insistence that a movement involves sustained collective mobilisation points to exactly this: the patterned, relatively durable arrangement of people, ideas and resources that allows a protest to be repeated, coordinated and remembered. Structure is what converts an episode into a movement.

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  • Components of the structure
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