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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Critically examine the dialectics between ‘development and environment’.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Social Movements in Modern India

A dialectic is not a trade-off. Development and environment mutually constitute and mutually negate each other: development is the appropriation of nature, and its success erodes the base it presupposes, generating a contradiction resolvable only at a higher level. Read as a trade-off it invites arithmetic; read dialectically it demands structural transformation.

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  • Thesis: development presupposes nature
  • Antithesis: nature negates development
  • The contradiction is social, not species-wide
  • Attempted syntheses, critically assessed
  • Conclusion

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