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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Discuss the relationship between poverty and social exclusion.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Stratification and Mobility

Poverty is a lack of resources, measured by income, consumption or basic capabilities. Social exclusion, a term brought into policy by René Lenoir (Les Exclus, 1974), is the process of being shut out of the economic, social and political life of a society. Graham Room described the move from the first concept to the second…

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  • Two distinct concepts
  • Exclusion produces poverty
  • Poverty produces exclusion
  • A vicious circle
  • Where they diverge
  • Perspectives
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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