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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Critically assess social mobility in closed and open systems.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Stratification and Mobility

Assessing mobility means asking two questions: how much movement each system actually produces, and what that movement changes. The textbook contrast of immobile caste and estate against fluid industrial class holds as a statement of norms. The evidence from both types of system is more mixed.

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  • The conventional assessment
  • Closed systems re-assessed: more movement than their norms allow
  • Open systems re-assessed: less fluid than their ideology claims
  • Indian evidence
  • Verdict

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