Old and new social movement in India

MSO-004: SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

Course Code: MSO-004

Assignment Code: MSO-004/AST/TMA/2016-17

Total Marks: 100

Q. 8. Define social movement and describe at least one old social movement and one new social movement in India.

Ans. Social movement involves collective action. However, it takes the form of a movement only when it is sustained for a long time. This collective action need not be formally organized. But it should be able to create an interest and awakening in relatively large number of people. The term “social movement” is being used to denote a wide variety of collective attempts to bring about a change in certain social institutions or to create an entirely new order. Sometimes the term is used in distinction from religious or political movements and from movements among particular groups, e.g., the women movement or youth’s movement. As all of this movement occur in society and tend to affect the social order it would be permissible to apply the term social movement to all of them. According to Blumer social movements is collective enterprise to establish a new social order of life.

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