Unlock Elite Access: Level Up Your Preparation with Exclusive Content

Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How does Marx’s treatment of alienation differ from that of other sociologists?

  • UPSC 1990
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Karl Marx, alienation (Entfremdung) is an objective, structural condition of labour under capitalism. It comes from private property and wage labour and ends only when they end. Other sociologists found its source elsewhere, in bureaucracy, money, culture or the loss of norms, or turned it into a subjective feeling that can be measured. They…

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

What the full answer covers

  • Marx's treatment
  • How other thinkers differ
  • The empirical turn
  • Indian illustration
  • 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 Sociological Thinkers question (192 solved) →Already enrolled? Log in