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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social system and the Pattern Variables.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Sociological Thinkers

In Talcott Parsons' scheme the social system is the structure and the pattern variables are the choices that give it shape. A social system is made of roles; every role requires the actor to settle five dilemmas; the settled answers, institutionalised as expectations, are what make roles, and therefore the system, predictable.

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  • The social system as a system of roles
  • Pattern variables as choice points
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