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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How is vertical and horizontal social mobility problematic in society? Suggest solutions.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Stratification and Mobility

Mobility is usually praised as the sign of an open society, but sociologists since Émile Durkheim have noted its costs. Rapid movement up or down (vertical), or across places and occupations at the same rank (horizontal), unsettles norms, identities and relationships. The problems are real, but the answer to them is to manage mobility, not…

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  • Problems of vertical mobility
  • Upward mobility
  • Downward mobility
  • Problems of horizontal mobility
  • Solutions
  • Conclusion

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