Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Social Movements

Question:

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

Social change is a continuous and ongoing process. The broad historical processes of social change the sum total individual and collective actions gathered across time and space. While social movements are directed towards some specific goals, it involves long and continuous social effort and action by people. The social movements can be classified as redemptive or tranformatory. reformist and revolutionary. A redemptive social movement aims to being about a change in the personal consciousness and actions of its individual members. Reformist social movements strive to change the existing social and political arrangements through gradual, incremental steps. Revolutionary social movements attempt to radically transform social relations often by capturing state power.

Regarding social movements, choose the incorrect statement from the following.

Options:

Involves long and continuous social efforts

Involves action by people

Revolutionary social movements attempt to radically transform social relations

Social movements are not directed towards specific goals

Correct Answer:

Social movements are not directed towards specific goals

Explanation:

It is important to distinguish between social change in general and social movements. Social change is continuous and ongoing. The broad historical processes of social change are the sum total of countless individual and collective actions gathered across time and space. Social movements are directed towards some specific goals. It involves long and continuous social effort and action by people.

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.