SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

1) SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

A. Concept, Structure & Theories

1. How can you assess the significance of social movements in the digital era? Explain. (2025)
2. What do you understand by social movement? How has the mobilization by Scheduled Castes helped them in constructing a new identity? (2014)
3. Define social movement. Elucidate the role of reformist movements in social change. (2013)
4. What are the structural elements of a social movement? State how a social movement comes to its end. Illustrate. (2009)
5. Write short note: Structure of a social movement. (2006)
6. Write short note: Ideology and Strategy of Social Movement. (2004)
7. Write short note: Social change and social movement. (2002)
8. What social conditions cause a social movement? Explain with illustrations, the career of a social movement. (2001)
9. Is ideology an essential component of a social movement? Illustrate with contemporary examples. (2000)
10. What are the structural conditions under which movements emerge? Discuss with reference to any one theory of genesis. (1998)
11. Write short note: Concept of social movement. (1997)
12. Trace the psychological and sociological roots of social movements today. Do they facilitate social change? (1990)
13. Write short note: Social Movement. (1987)

B. Types & Forms of Movements

1. Are social movements primordial in means and progressive in agenda? (2018)
2. What is new in ‘new social movements’? Elaborate with special reference to India. (2017)
3. Write short note: Millenarian Movements. (2012)
4. Write short note: Reformative social movements. (1996)
5. Write short note: Types of social movements. (1994, repeated in 1988)
6. Write short note: Protest movements. (1993)

C. Movements, Protest & Revolution

1. Examine the role of protest movements in changing the status of Dalits in India. (2016)
2. To what extent revolution replaces the existing order of society? (2016)
3. Bring out the commonality between a social movement and a revolution. Would you agree that each revolution is preceded by a social movement? (1999)

D. Decline, Change & Impact

1. How do ‘Civil Society Organizations’ such as NGOs and Self-Help Groups contribute in bringing grassroots level social changes? Discuss. (2025)
2. Examine how social movements come to an end. Illustrate with examples. (2020)
3. Describe in the modern ideological society changes due to social movements in India. (2005)