The ............... of formation of social movement can also be called as 'The Unrest Stage'.
MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,
Answer: A
The unrest stage is the Preliminary stage.
In Herbert Blumer's classic account, a social movement passes through four stages: the preliminary stage of social unrest, when people feel a vague dissatisfaction and agitators voice it; the popular stage, when the unrest becomes collective excitement around a shared cause; the formalisation stage, when an organisation with leaders, rules and strategy appears; and the stage of institutionalisation, when the movement becomes an established part of society.
Unrest is the starting condition, so it names the first stage and none of the later ones, which already assume organised collective action.
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