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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Role-conflict and its resolution.

  • UPSC 2007, 1996
  • Stratification and Mobility

Ralph Linton (The Study of Man, 1936) described a role as the dynamic aspect of a status. Role conflict arises when an actor faces incompatible expectations, either from two statuses held at once or from different people linked to one status, so that meeting one set of demands means violating another. A working mother torn…

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