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Briefly discuss the Conflict Perspective on social stratification and examine the view that social inequality in India is the function of rigid social stratification system.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Stratification and Mobility

The functionalist view (Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, 1945) treats stratification as necessary for filling important positions. The conflict perspective treats it as the outcome of domination: groups that control scarce resources use power and ideology to keep their advantage. Applied to India, this raises the question of whether inequality comes from a rigid,…

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  • The conflict perspective
  • Examining the view
  • Evidence for rigidity
  • Evidence against rigidity
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion

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