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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Examine the social dimensions of displacement induced by development.

  • UPSC 2013, 2010
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Development displaces; the sociological question is who is displaced, what is lost beyond land, and why compensation so reliably fails. Displacement is best read not as a by-product of growth but as a distributive decision, imposing its costs on those with the least political voice.

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  • Scale and its social distribution
  • What is actually lost: Cernea's framework
  • The principal social dimensions
  • Law, and the limits of law
  • Conclusion

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