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What are the main principles of the structural-functional perspective? Comment on the suitability of applying this perspective to the study of Indian society.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The structural-functional perspective treats society as a system whose parts are understood by what they contribute to the working of the whole. It reached India through British social anthropology's fieldwork tradition, and whether a theory of order fits a society organised by graded inequality has been argued ever since.

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