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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Are traditional social institutions getting weakened as agents of social change in the contemporary society? Substantiate.

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  • Education System and Social Change

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Family, kinship, caste, religion and the village community once organised production, justice, marriage and welfare together. Modernisation theory expected them to be displaced by the state, market, school and media — Ferdinand Tönnies' movement from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft, restated by Talcott Parsons as structural differentiation. The Indian evidence supports a different conclusion: these institutions have…

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  • Evidence that they are weakening
  • Evidence that they remain powerful agents
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