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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Examine the social consequences of economic development with special reference to India.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Economic development is not a set of outcomes that society absorbs; it is a process that rebuilds society while it proceeds. The Indian case is instructive because the rebuilding has been partial and contradictory — occupational structure, caste, family and space have each changed at a different speed, leaving the old order and the new…

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  • A new occupational structure, imperfectly formed
  • Class forms, caste persists, and the two realign
  • Family, demography and gender
  • Migration and the urban question
  • Growth without transformation
  • Conclusion

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