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Evaluate if social stratification is functional for society.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Stratification and Mobility

To call stratification "functional" is to say that its consequences help society survive and work efficiently. Robert K. Merton (Social Theory and Social Structure, 1949) added the questions that decide this evaluation: functional for whom, and what is the net balance of functions and dysfunctions?

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  • The case that it is functional
  • The ledger of dysfunctions
  • Indian evidence
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion

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