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Examine the dialectical relation between tradition and modernity in the study of social change.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Modernisation theory treated tradition and modernity as polar opposites on one ladder, so change meant the replacement of the first by the second. The dialectical view, developed most fully in Indian sociology, holds that the two constitute each other: tradition is the medium through which modernity is received, and modernity the condition under which tradition…

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  • The dichotomy it displaces
  • The dialectical alternative
  • Testing the claim
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