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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Examine social consequences of changes in technology. Illustrate your answer with examples from new productive processes and equipment.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

Technology enters society as a productive process, not as an isolated device, and its social consequences flow from the way that process arranges people — how it distributes skill, supervision, property and risk. Examined through successive production technologies, the effects are real and patterned, yet the same equipment yields different outcomes in different institutional settings.

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  • From craft to assembly line: skill, solidarity and alienation
  • Flexible equipment and a divided workforce
  • Agrarian equipment: differentiation and cultural lag
  • Conclusion

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