In this lecture, we will study about:
1. The concept of collective action.
2. Difference between Protest and Social Movement.
3. Elements of Social Movements.
4. Types of Social Movement- Reformatory social movements, Revolutionary Social Movements and Reactionary Social Movements.
5. Neil Smelser Structure-functional theory of social movements and concept of structural strain.
6. Herbert Blumer- Active Social Movements and Expressive Social Movements.
7. Relative Deprivation and Social Movements.
8. Resource Mobilisation theory of Social Movements.
9. Mass Society theory of Social Movements.
10. Herbert Blumer talks about Lifecycle of Social Movements.
11. Theoda Skocpol theory of Revolution.
12. Old Social Movements and New Social Movements
13. Jurgen Habermas on New Social Movements.

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