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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.

Many members of Dalit community, under the leadership of Dr. B.R Ambedkar changed their social practices to leave alcohol drinking and eating dead animals. This kind movement can be termed as.

Redemptive or transformative

The movement led by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, where members of the Dalit community changed their social practices like abstaining from alcohol and not consuming dead animals, can be classified as redemptive or transformative.

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