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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do you think that poverty, deprivation and inequalities are the major challenges in the process of social transformation ? What are your suggestions to address and resolve these problems ?

  • UPSC 2009
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Yes — but not because they are the largest problems by headcount. Social transformation means a change in the structure of relationships, not a rise in aggregates, and poverty, deprivation and inequality are precisely what allow the old order to survive inside new institutions.

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  • Why they are the central challenge
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