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Relevance: Sociology: Challenges of Social Transformation:Poverty, deprivation and inequalities. Violence against women. Illiteracy and disparities in education. Context The legal age of marriage
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Relevance: Sociology: Population Dynamics: (a) Population size, growth, composition and distribution. (b) Components of population growth: birth, death, migration. (c) Population
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Relevance: Sociology: Challenges of Social Transformation: Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and sustainability. Nearly half a year into the novel
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Social Functions of the Family Relevance: Sociology: Systems of Kinship in India: Family and marriage in India. Household dimensions of the family.
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Relevance: Sociology: Poverty, deprivation and inequalities. & G.S paper I: Society and Social Issues & G.S paper II: Governance: Health
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Relevance: Sociology: Paper I: Stratification and Mobility: Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation. Paper II: Challenges of Social Transformation: Poverty, deprivation and
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Relevance: Sociology: Poverty, deprivation and inequalities: Gender Inequalities Context Struggling to survive during an unexpected and unprecedented lockdown, members of the
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Relevance: Mains: G.S paper I: Society and social issues: Social Empowerment & Sociology: (v) Social Movements in Modern India: Backward classes &
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