Dear All, I am appending some of the answers that I wrote last year. (Please understand that these are not models answers but some of the answers that I wrote during strict examination conditions)

Que 1. Strive for objectivity is a Sociological nonsense. Comment critically using illustrations and cases. – 60 marks.

Ans 1

Que 2. Write a short note on ‘P. Sorokin on Social Change’ – 20 marks.

Ans 2.

Que 3. Write a short note on ‘Technology and Alienation’ – 20 marks.

Ans 3.

Que 4. Write a short note on ‘Household dimension to family’ – 20 marks.

Ans 4.

Que 5. ‘Sexual division of labor is as old as human civilization itself’. Comment – 30 marks.

Ans 5.

Que 6. Write a short note on ‘Sociology of Feudalism’ – 20 marks.

Ans 6.

Que 7. Write a short note on ‘Death of Ideology’ – 20 marks.

Ans 7.

Que 8. Write a short note on ‘Feminist approach to Social Change’ – 30 marks

Ans 8.

Que 9. Write a short note on “Education and persistence of economic inequality”  – 30 marks

Ans 9.

Que 10. Do you think that technology and science are making global inequality stronger, deeper and more persistent ? – 30 marks

Ans 10:

(Pls note that the graph I have drawn in this answer is not correct, instead of gender inequality it should be gender equality)

Que 11. To what extent you consider that democracy offers a string platform for the institutionalization of religion? Provide suitable illustrations in support of your answer. – 30 marks.

Ans 11.

Que 12. A strong democracy is reflected in terms of effective participative citizenry. Critically comment. – 30 marks.

Ans 12.

Que 13. “Pluralism is a great social doctrine but it is difficult to practise in modern society”. Comment – 30 marks.

Ans 13.

 

Comments:

1) The feedback that I repeatedly used to get was that my answers tend to exceed the word limit, and hence sometimes were vague (which is visible in the above scripts). My suggestion to the aspirants is stick to the word limit, write with precision rather than exceeding the word limit, the latter is a strict no no in UPSC, in my opinion. Precision comes with a good understanding of the subject matter, repeated reading, and most importantly writing the answers regularly. The more you write, the better would be your command over the language.

2) Please ignore the marks obtained/ total marks mentioned along some of the answers, there was some confusion while evaluation, please treat the maximum marks mentioned along with the question as the actual max marks.

All the best.