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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Assess the role of mass media as an agent of social change.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Social Change in Modern Society

An assessment must begin with a distinction the question invites: an agent is a vehicle through which change is transmitted, a cause is what generates it. Mass media is decisively the first and only occasionally the second — which is why the same institution appears in sociology both as the great moderniser and as the…

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  • The case for media as a moderniser
  • The case against
  • The Indian balance sheet
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