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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.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Education System and Social Change

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
  • Conclusion

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