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Elaborate on the concept of structural change. Discuss the endogenic factors of structural change in a society, with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Social Change in Modern Society

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown treated social structure as the network of actually existing relations between persons and groups, and S. F. Nadel (The Theory of Social Structure, 1957) as an ordered arrangement of roles. Raymond Firth (Elements of Social Organisation, 1956) drew the useful line: structure carries the principle of continuity, organisation the principle of variation.…

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  • What makes a change structural
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