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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Ethnic diversity and community integration.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Ethnicity is not a fixed inheritance of blood or custom but a socially constructed, politically activated boundary. Its sociological interest lies in why some differences become the basis of collective claims while others, equally real, stay inert.

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  • How ethnicity is constituted
  • India's axes and their scale
  • The architecture of integration
  • Where it strains
  • Significance and critique
  • Conclusion

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