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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Illustrate the conflicts and tensions experienced by societies undergoing social change.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Social Change in Modern Society

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Change is never frictionless, because it redistributes resources, status, authority and meaning, and redistribution is contested. Lewis Coser (The Functions of Social Conflict, 1956) stated the relationship exactly: conflict is both a product of change and a producer of it. The tensions fall into recognisable types, each with its theorist and its Indian illustration.

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  • Normative tension: anomie
  • Institutional tension: cultural lag
  • Structural contradiction and class conflict
  • Tension of rising expectations
  • Identity and recognition
  • The lesson from theory
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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