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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Social Consequences of Globalisation.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Anthony Giddens (The Consequences of Modernity, 1990) defined globalisation as the intensification of worldwide social relations linking distant localities, so that local events are shaped by happenings far away. Dated in India to the reforms of 1991, its consequences are not uniform: it redistributed opportunity upward and risk downward, and culturally produced hybridity rather than…

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  • Stratification and the new middle class
  • Work and informalisation
  • Culture: homogenisation, glocalisation, hybridity
  • Family, gender and caste
  • Identity, risk and the losers
  • Conclusion

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