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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Changing concept of property.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Works and Economic Life

Sociologically, property is not a thing but a socially recognised bundle of rights over things: to use, exclude, transfer and inherit, backed by custom or law. What counts as property, who may hold it and what limits apply have all changed as modes of production, kinship and the state have changed.

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  • From communal to private property
  • Corporate and intangible property
  • The Indian trajectory
  • Conclusion

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