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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social class and social status.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social class and social status are the two most-used axes of stratification. Class ranks people by economic position, and status ranks them by social position and honour. Max Weber's separation of the two opened the multidimensional analysis of inequality.

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  • Social class
  • Social status
  • Distinction
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