Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty, and deprivation
Key points
- Social equality and inequality
- Social hierarchy
- Social exclusion
- Absolute and relative poverty
- Deprivation
Previous year questions
Questions asked from this topic in UPSC Sociology Optional:
- Compare capability deprivation approach with that of social capital deprivation in understanding chronic poverty.
- Analyse the changing nature of caste as a status group.
- Discuss the dimensions of power the construction and maintenance of social hierarchies in a society.
- How is poverty a form of social exclusion? Illustrate in this connection the different dimensions of poverty and social exclusion.
- How do sociologists construct gender in their analysis on social inequality?
- How are Hierarchy and Exclusion the major impediments in the transformation of societies? Discuss.
- What is affirmative action? Substantiate theoretical positions on affirmative actions with examples.
- What is the difference between natural and social inequality? Give examples from caste and class dimensions.
- Can we equate 'poverty' with 'poor living'?Elaborate your answer.
- Discuss the relationship between poverty and social exclusion.
- Distinguish between people being socially excluded and people excluding themselves socially societies.