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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social Structure and Political Participation.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Politics and Society

Social structure is the patterned arrangement of statuses and groups, such as class, caste, gender, religion, age and rural-urban location. It decides who takes part in politics, how, and with what effect. Political sociology since Seymour Martin Lipset (Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, 1960) has treated participation as socially patterned rather than as…

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  • How structure shapes participation
  • The Indian inversion
  • How participation reshapes structure
  • Conclusion

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