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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Does collapse of functionalism and bankruptcy of Marxism coincide with the rupture of modernity? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Social Change in Modern Society

The question packs three claims. Each is overstated, yet the coincidence is not accidental: functionalism, Marxism and the modern self-image rested on the same premise — a bounded, unified society moving in a single direction that a privileged standpoint could describe whole.

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  • The declines are real
  • Why the rupture thesis is tempting
  • Why all three claims are overstated
  • The view from India
  • Conclusion

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