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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do modernization and secularization necessarily go together? Give your views.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Religion and Society

Classical sociology assumed that they did. Auguste Comte's law of three stages, Max Weber's "disenchantment of the world" and Bryan R. Wilson's definition of secularisation as the process whereby religious thinking, practice and institutions lose social significance (Religion in Secular Society, 1966) all linked religious decline to science, industry and bureaucracy. My view is that…

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  • Why they were expected to go together
  • Evidence that they coincide
  • Why the link is not necessary
  • The Indian case
  • Conclusion

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