Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
According to Weber how do class, status and power interact to produce and sustain social inequality?
- UPSC 2026
- Sociological Thinkers
Max Weber, in the chapter "Class, Status, Party" of Economy and Society (1922), rejected Karl Marx's reduction of inequality to property. For him "classes, status groups and parties are phenomena of the distribution of power within a community": three analytically separate orders that feed one another, which is why inequality is both produced and made…
You are reading the opening of the model answer. The full answer is part of Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions.
What the full answer covers
- Three orders of inequality
- How they interact to produce inequality
- How inequality is sustained
- Indian evidence
- Limits of the model
- Conclusion
Unlock this answer and 1,500+ more
- 1,500+ solved UPSC Sociology PYQs from 1985 to 2026, Paper-1 and Paper-2
- Topic-wise across all 25 syllabus units, newest exam year first
- A full model answer for every question, shaped to 10 or 20 marks, with thinkers and Indian examples
- Read online on lotusarise.com, plus PDF download
₹1,499₹2,50040% off
Get Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions @ ₹1,499 →
One-time payment · 12 months of access · Instant access · UPI, cards, RuPay
See every Sociological Thinkers question (192 solved) →Already enrolled? Log in
