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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

What are the reasons for the escalation of violence against women in the public domain?

  • UPSC 2017
  • 10 marks
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Violence in the public domain — street, bus, campus, workplace — has a different sociology from violence in the home: it is directed not at a wife but at a woman as a claimant on shared space. Its escalation is the friction generated when women's entry into public life outpaces the normative order that once…

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  • Cultural lag: presence outgrowing its norms
  • Backlash and the defence of masculine space
  • The sociology of public space itself
  • Weak social control and cheap impunity
  • Escalation of what?
  • Conclusion

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