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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do you think that the boundary line between ethnicity and race is blurred? Justify your answer.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Stratification and Mobility

Classically, race meant groups marked by inherited physical traits and labelled from outside, while ethnicity meant a shared culture claimed from within. Max Weber defined an ethnic group by a subjective belief in common descent. Descent is also the idiom of race. Empirically the line is blurred, but analytically it is still worth drawing.

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  • The classical distinction
  • Why the boundary is blurred
  • Why the distinction still matters
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