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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Parsons’ idea of equilibrium.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Talcott Parsons, equilibrium is the tendency of a social system to stay orderly and keep its identity in the face of internal strain and external pressure. He did not treat it as a description of any real society. It was an analytical assumption, a reference point against which disturbance, deviance and change can be…

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  • Intellectual roots
  • What equilibrium means in The Social System (1951)
  • Static and moving equilibrium
  • Critiques
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