What are the features of a …

Features of Social Movement

• Requires sustained collective action over time. Such action is often directed against the state and takes the form of demanding changes in state policy or practice.
• Collective action must be marked by some degree of organisation. This organisation may include a leadership and a structure that defines how members relate to each other, make decisions and carry them out.
• Those participating in a social movement also have shared objectives and ideologies. A social movement has a general orientation or way of approaching to bring about (or to prevent) change.
• These defining features are not constant. They may change over the course of a social movement’s life.
• Social movements cannot change society easily. Since it goes against both entrenched interests and values, there is bound to be opposition and resistance. But over a period of time changes do take place.