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Floods in Sri Lanka 2017 Sri Lanka became a victim of devastating natural disasters during recent past making a dramatic impact on mankind and living hood on Sri Lankan soil. Recent chain of natural disasters occurred in the month of May 2017 resulted from heavy southwest monsoon was worsened by arriving of Cyclone Mora, causing number of floods and landslides throughout Sri Lanka. The flood affected almost fifteen districts displacing around six hundred thousand people. Nearly two hundred and fifty people were killed and hundred and thirty people were missing due to the flood. The series of hazards hit its peak with landslide at Meethotamulla garbage dump in 14th of April 2017, taking its toll on 26 lives and left over 1,500 homeless and displaced people. Sri Lanka was alerted as a disaster porn country with Tsunami hit in 2014 loosing thousands of mankind and taking a massive impact on the country’s profile and Sri Lanka barely could stand up from junks of deadliest waves, t...

Rodney Stark - Founder of Social Movement Theory   1.                   A social movement is a type of group action. Social movements can be defined as "organizational structures and strategies that may empower oppressed populations to mount effective challenges and resist the more powerful and advantaged elites". They are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues. In other words, they carry out, resist, or undo a social change. They provide a way of social change from the bottom within nations. 2.                   The early growth of social movements was connected to broad economic and political changes in England in the mid-18th century which, quietly spread over the civilizations in European and Western countr...