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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

“Vertical mobility brings structural change even in a closed social system.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Stratification and Mobility

The statement claims that movement up and down a rigid hierarchy eventually changes the hierarchy itself. Judging it depends on a distinction drawn by M. N. Srinivas: positional change, where a group changes rank within an unaltered order, versus structural change, where the principles of ranking or the relations between strata change.

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