Unlock Elite Access: Level Up Your Preparation with Exclusive Content

Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Examine the relationship between social structure and social change. Has the Indian social structure facilitated or hindered the process of change?

  • UPSC 1984
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Social structure is the enduring arrangement of roles, groups and relations; social change is alteration in that arrangement. They are not opposites. Raymond Firth (Elements of Social Organisation, 1956) located continuity in structure and variation in organisation, and Anthony Giddens (The Constitution of Society, 1984) went further with the duality of structure: rules and resources…

You are reading the opening of the model answer. The full answer is part of Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions.

What the full answer covers

  • How the two are related
  • Where the Indian structure has hindered change
  • Where it has facilitated change
  • Conclusion

Unlock this answer and 1,500+ more

  • 1,500+ solved UPSC Sociology PYQs from 1985 to 2026, Paper-1 and Paper-2
  • Topic-wise across all 25 syllabus units, newest exam year first
  • A full model answer for every question, shaped to 10 or 20 marks, with thinkers and Indian examples
  • Read online on lotusarise.com, plus PDF download

₹1,499₹2,50040% off

Get Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions @ ₹1,499 →

One-time payment · 12 months of access · Instant access · UPI, cards, RuPay

See every Social Change in Modern Society question (106 solved) →Already enrolled? Log in