Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Social Movements

Question:

A movement that is aimed in bringing change in the personal consciousness and actions of individual members is called:

Options:

Reformist social movement

Revolutionary social movement

Historical social movement

Redemptive social movement

Correct Answer:

Redemptive social movement

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → Redemptive social movement

There are different kinds of social movements. They can be classified as: (i) redemptive or transformatory; (ii) reformist; and (iii) revolutionary.

A redemptive social movement aims to bring about a change in the personal consciousness and actions of its individual members. For instance, people in the Ezhava community in Kerala were led by Narayana Guru to change their social practices. Reformist social movements strive to change the existing social and political arrangements through gradual, incremental steps. The 1960s movement for the reorganisation of Indian states on the basis of language and the recent Right to Information campaign are examples of reformist movements. Revolutionary social movements attempt to radically transform social relations, often by capturing state power. The Bolshevik revolution in Russia that deposed the Tsar to create a communist state and the Naxalite movement in India that seeks to remove oppressive landlords and state officials can be described as revolutionary movements.