Thinker

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Sorokin is central to 13 previous-year questions, spanning 2010 to 2024 across Paper I. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.

13Questions

2010–24Years tested

IPaper

3Syllabus topics

Concepts asked alongside Pitirim Sorokin

What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.

social mobility 5vertical and horizontal mobility 5ascription and achievement 4structural mobility 4sanskritisation 3class and status 2closed system 2intergenerational mobility 2open and closed systems 2open system 2vertical mobility 2achieved statusascribed statusclosed and open systemsclosed stratification systemsclosed systemsconflict theorycredentialism

Where Pitirim Sorokin appears in the syllabus

5. Stratification and Mobility10
10. Social Change in Modern Society2
1. Sociology — The Discipline1

Every question on Pitirim Sorokin

Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.

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2012

In our society Hierarchical relations are influenced by social mobility. Explain how ?Paper I · 20 marks · 5. Stratification and Mobility

2011

What do you mean by social mobility ? Discuss the major sources and causes of mobility.Paper I · 30 marks · 5. Stratification and Mobility

2010

Examine how open and closed systems of stratification are undergoing transformation in the emergence of new hierarchical social order in societies.Paper I · 30 marks · 5. Stratification and Mobility

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