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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Types of exchange.

  • UPSC 2001, 1996
  • Works and Economic Life

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Exchange is the transfer of goods, services or symbols between actors, and it is always a social relationship: the form an exchange takes reveals the kind of bond between the parties. Economic anthropologists classified its forms, and sociologists later extended exchange into a general theory of interaction.

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  • Polanyi's forms of integration
  • Sahlins's continuum of reciprocity
  • Gift versus commodity
  • Social exchange theory
  • Indian illustrations
  • Conclusion
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