Defined by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper as, “a social movement that seeks, as minimum, to overthrow the government or statea state is an independent political entity with a centralized government and set geographical boundaries where control is exercised by police or military; a state claims the right to defend itself from both internal and external threats by use of force; a state may have many villages and cities and/or millions or billions of people as in China and India.”
