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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

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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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