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Critically examine the cultural theories of social change with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Cultural theories hold that the decisive variable in social change is the realm of ideas, values and meanings rather than technology or property. They are the standing alternative to economic determinism, and their strength and weakness are one: culture explains what materialism cannot, but resists proof.

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