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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Explain the inter-linkages between poverty, deprivation and inequality.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

The three are distinct concepts that operate as a single system. Inequality is the unequal distribution of valued resources across a society. Poverty is a position within that distribution in which resources fall below what is needed — absolute poverty being a shortfall against subsistence, relative poverty a shortfall against the society's own standard, which…

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