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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Critically assess the impact of technological advancement and automation on the nature of work and employment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

Automation alters not merely how many people work but what working is — the skill a job carries, who supervises it, and the legal form under which it is done. A sociological assessment must therefore separate three questions: the volume of employment, the quality of work, and the structure of control. On volume the alarmists…

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  • The optimistic case: automation upgrades work
  • The critical case: degradation, polarisation and algorithmic control
  • The Indian case
  • Conclusion

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