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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

In this chapter, we will discuss the following important topics.

  • Political factions and pressure groups
  • Movements based on Caste, Ethnicity, Ideology, Gender, Disability, Religion, and Region
  • Civil Society and Citizenship
  • NGOs, Activism and Leadership
  • Reservations and Politics

INTRODUCTION

Collective attempts to bring social change are defined as a social movement. It is an attempt to bring change in certain social institutions and to create a Social Movements entirely new social order. Or the attempts may represent a socially shared demand for change in some aspects of the social order. Turner and Kilhan define a social ...

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