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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How do sociologists construct gender in their analysis on social inequality?

  • UPSC 2022
  • Stratification and Mobility

Sociologists do not take gender as a natural given. They build it as an analytical category, and the way it is built decides which inequalities become visible. The concept has moved through five stages: from difference to role, to structure, to practice, and finally to intersection.

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  • 1. Gender as distinct from sex
  • 2. Gender as role
  • 3. Gender as a structure of power
  • 4. Gender as everyday practice
  • 5. Gender as intersecting
  • How the construct shapes measurement
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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