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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Concept of social structure.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Sociological Thinkers

Social structure refers to the relatively enduring, patterned arrangement of social relationships, statuses, roles, groups and institutions that persists while individual members come and go. It is sociology's answer to the question of why social life is orderly and repetitive rather than random.

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  • Indian illustration: caste
  • Significance and limits
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