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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Analyse the idea of development planning in India.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Development planning is not merely a machinery of targets; it is an idea about how a society may take charge of its own transformation. Its conceptual core is a distinction sociologists insist on: social change is value-free, any alteration in social structure and social relations, whereas development is value-laden — only change that is willed…

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What the full answer covers

  • Component one: change as a directed, not spontaneous, process
  • Component two: rival blueprints inside one idea
  • Component three: the state as the agent of modernisation
  • Component four: planning as ideology
  • Conclusion

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