Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Analyse the limitations of working a democratic political system in a traditional society.
- UPSC 1988
- Rural and Agrarian Social Structure
Democracy presupposes a citizen: an individual, equal before law, contracting freely and choosing secularly. A traditional society produces instead a person — a member of caste, lineage and village, whose status is ascribed and whose obligations are hierarchical. Louis Dumont named the contrast in Homo Hierarchicus (1966): homo hierarchicus, for whom the whole precedes the…
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- The value mismatch
- The authority mismatch
- Capture of democratic institutions
- The other side: democracy transforming tradition
- Conclusion
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