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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS-MEANING

CAUSES AND TYPES

MEANING:

Changes brought by efforts of people

Such efforts are called social movements

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DEFINITION

Collectively acting with continuity

To promote or resists a change

To modify certain aspects of social order

Some try to modify some aspects

Others aim to change completely

Social movements-numerous kinds

Religious,reform,revolution movements

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FEATURES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Effort by a group

To bring, resist change

Organized or unorganized

Peaceful or violent

Long period or alie soon

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CAUSES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

1)

Social unrest leads to movements

Cultural drifts-new ideas

Democracy, removal of untouchability equality, secularism

2)

Social disorganization Industrialization, urbanization

Confusion-old traditions not guiding behavior

3) SOCIAL INJUSTICE

Injustice done to some group

Frustated,alienated

Stable society-few movements

Changing society-tensions

Modern society-more movements

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PEOPLE SUCESCEPTIBLE TO SOCIAL

MOVEMENTS

People not integrated with society

Not fully accepted, integrated

Isolated from community

People with economic insecurity loss of socialstatus

Estranged from families

Maladjusted, homeless

Widespread social discontent

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TYPES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Difficult to give classification Movement of mixed nature

However, classified as follows:

MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS

When many people leave one country

When common discontent, shared purposes, hope for future

Jews to Israel, East Germany to West Germany

EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENTS

When people feel powerless to change social system

Hippie movement

UTOPIAN MOVEMENT

To seek to create ideal social system

Found in Marx's imagination not in reality

Sarvodaya movement

REFORM MOVEMENT

To modify some parts of society

To operate in democratic society

People can criticize

Abolish untouchabilty,dowry system

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS

To overthrow existing social system

To replace it with different one Communists movements in Russia

RESISTANCE MOVEMENT

Effort to block proposal change

To uproot a change already achieved

D M K movement against Hindu

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REVOLUTION

To overthrow existing system

Russia to overthrow against regime

A political regime overthrow by force

To impose new form of govt.

Where reform blocked

Accompanied by violence

Mass scale killings

A group race not getting its just share To achieve autonomy

To be separated from the state