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Write short note with a sociological perspective on the following: Demographic perspective of Indian youth.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Population Dynamics

Youth is an age category made socially meaningful. Karl Mannheim, in "The Problem of Generations" (1928), distinguished a generation location — the shared position of those born in the same historical period — from a generation as actuality, formed when a cohort lives through a common upheaval, and from generation units, the rival ways a…

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  • Size, share and the turning point
  • The aspiration–opportunity gap
  • Divides within the cohort
  • Conclusion

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