THEORETICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Keywords:
Social Movement, Revitalization, Relative Deprivation, Ideology, Leadership, Organisation, Post-ModernismAbstract
The ferment reflection in recent social movements has attracted increasing attention all over the world. The civil rights movement, student movements, movements of organizations on the political right, the women's movement, ecological, dalit and tribal movements - all of these have received national coverage in the press and mass media. Hence, it is important to study the theoretical issues related to social movements.
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