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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social structure and anomie.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Sociological Thinkers

"Social Structure and Anomie", published by Robert K. Merton in the American Sociological Review in 1938, is among the most cited articles in sociology. It asked how some social structures exert definite pressure on certain people to act in non-conforming rather than conforming ways. This moved the explanation of deviance from biological drives or faulty…

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