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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

What do you mean by social mobility? Discuss the major sources and causes of mobility?

  • UPSC 2011
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups from one position to another in a system of stratification. Pitirim Sorokin, whose Social Mobility (1927) founded the field, held that no society is completely closed or completely open. The useful question is therefore what makes people move, and why they move at different rates in…

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  • Meaning in brief
  • Sources and causes
  • 1. Structural causes
  • 2. Institutional and political causes
  • 3. Cultural causes
  • 4. Individual causes
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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