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Critically examine the impact of traditional social structures on the development and functioning of a democratic polity.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Modernisation theory expected democracy to dissolve traditional structures. Talcott Parsons's pattern variables made the modern polity universalistic, achievement-oriented and specific, against the particularism, ascription and diffuseness of caste, lineage and community; Max Weber expected legal-rational authority to displace traditional domination. What happened in India instead was that democracy did not dissolve traditional structures — it…

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