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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Are Tradition and Modernity antithetical to each other? Comment.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Caste System

Tradition is inherited belief and practice claiming authority from the past; modernity is an order built on rational-legal authority, achievement and the individual. Classical modernisation theory assumed the two were mutually exclusive, so that one advanced only as the other retreated. Indian evidence refutes that zero-sum assumption without abolishing the distinction.

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  • The dichotomy and its assumption
  • Why the Indian evidence refutes it
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