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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Emerging pattern of sex roles in modern society.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Works and Economic Life

Sex roles are the socially expected behaviours, duties and rights attached to being male or female. Ann Oakley (Sex, Gender and Society, 1972) insisted that these roles are gender constructions, not biological givens. In classical modern sociology they were fixed and complementary. Today they are becoming negotiated, overlapping and plural, though unevenly.

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