Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Social Movements

Question:

Reformist social movements strive to:

Options:

Capture state power

Radically transform social relations

Change the existing social arrangement

Bring change abruptly

Correct Answer:

Change the existing social arrangement

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Change the existing social arrangement

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.