Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Differential sex-ratio and its implications.
- UPSC 2016
- 10 marks
- Population Dynamics
A "differential sex ratio" means that the female–male balance is not uniform but varies systematically by region, age, class, caste and birth order. Census 2011 recorded 1,084 women per 1,000 men in Kerala against 879 in Haryana, and a child sex ratio of 834 in Haryana against 970 in Mizoram. Monica Das Gupta's rural Punjab…
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- The male marriage squeeze
- Bride import and the trafficking economy
- Scarcity does not raise women's status
- Stratified exclusion and its effect on caste
- Violence, masculinity and labour
- Conclusion
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