Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
How do you understand the relationship between patriarchy and social development?
- UPSC 2022
- Systems of Kinship
Social development means expanding people's capabilities, well-being and equality, which Amartya Sen (Development as Freedom, 1999) calls development as freedom. Patriarchy, a system of male dominance over women (Sylvia Walby, 1990), affects development and is affected by it in turn. The relationship runs both ways and is contradictory: patriarchy slows development, while development can either…
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- Patriarchy as a brake on development
- Development does not automatically dissolve patriarchy
- Development that transforms patriarchy
- Conclusion
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