SOCIAL MOVEMENTS-MEANING

CAUSES AND TYPES

MEANING:
 Changes brought by efforts of people
 Such efforts are called social movements
 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
 FEATURES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

 Effort by a group
 To bring, resist change
 Organized or unorganized
 Peaceful or violent
 Long period or die soon
 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
 PEOPLE SUCESCEPTIBLE TO SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS
 People not integrated with society
 Not fully accepted, integrated
 Isolated from community
 People with economic insecurity loss of social
status
 Estranged from families
 Maladjusted, homeless
 Widespread social discontent
 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 proposed change
 To uproot a change already achieved
 D M K movement against Hindi
 REVOLUTION
 To overthrow existing czarist system
 Russia to overthrow czarist regime
 A political regime to overthrow by force
 To impose new form of govt.
 Where reform blocked
 Accompanied by violence
 Mass scale killings
 A group or race not getting its just share
 To achieve autonomy
 To be separated from the state