Model answers for these questions. 26 UPSC questions from Social Movements (1985–2026) are solved in Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions, with a full model answer for each. Use the View answer links in the table, or open the whole unit topic-wise, newest year first.
| Year | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Explain in brief the relationship between social movement, collective action and revolution in bringing about social and political changes. (10 marks) | View answer |
| 2026 | How do different theories explain social dimensions of social movements? Discuss. (10 marks) | View answer |
| 2025 | How can you assess the significance of social movements in the digital era? Explain. (10 marks) | View answer |
| 2020 | Examine how social movements come to` an end. Illustrate with examples. | View answer |
| 2018 | Are social movements primordial in means and progressive in agenda? Explain. | View answer |
| 2017 | What is new in 'new social movements'? Elaborate your answer with special reference to India. | View answer |
| 2016 | Examine the role of protest movements in changing the status of Dalits in India. | View answer |
| 2016 | To what extend revolution replaces the existing order of society? Discuss | View answer |
| 2014 | What do you understand by social movement? How has the mobilization by Scheduled Castes helped them in constructing a new identity? | View answer |
| 2013 | Define social movement. Elucidate the role of reformist movements in social change. (150 words) | View answer |
| 2012 | Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Millenarian Movements. | View answer |
| 2009 | What are the structural elements of a social movement? State how a social movement comes to its end. Illustrate your answer with example. | View answer |
| 2006 | Write short note: Structure of a social movement. | View answer |
| 2005 | Describe in the modern ideological society changes due that to social movements in India. | |
| 2004 | Write short note: Ideology and Strategy of Social Movement. | View answer |
| 2002 | Write short note: Social change and social movement. | View answer |
| 2001 | What social conditions cause a social movement? Explain with illustrations, the career of a social movement. | View answer |
| 2000 | Is ideology an essential component of a social movement? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples from some contemporary social movements. | View answer |
| 1999 | Bring out the commonality between a social movement and a revolution. Would you agree with the view that each revolution is preceded by a social movement? Give reasons. | View answer |
| 1998 | What are the structural conditions under which movements emerge? Discuss with reference to any one theory of genesis of social movements. | View answer |
| 1997 | Write short note: Concept of social movement. | View answer |
| 1996 | Write short note: Reformative social movements. | View answer |
| 1994 | Write short note: Types of social movements. | View answer |
| 1993 | Write short note: Protest movements. | View answer |
| 1990 | Trace the Psychological and Sociological roots of social movements in society today. Do social movements facilitate social change? | View answer |
| 1988 | Write short note: Types of social movements | View answer |
| 1987 | Write short note: Social Movement. | View answer |
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