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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social Mobility and social change.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups between positions in a stratified order. Social change is an alteration in the pattern of social relations, institutions and values. The two are closely linked but not the same: people can move constantly within an unchanged structure, and a structure can change with little individual movement.…

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  • Change as a cause of mobility
  • Mobility as a cause of change
  • When mobility does not bring change
  • Conclusion

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