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Explain the classical concept of social change and critically examine the contribution of the linear theories of social change.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Social Change in Modern Society

For classical sociology change was not one topic among many but the discipline's founding problem, born of the industrial and democratic revolutions. Its concept of change carried a built-in assumption — that change is directional and cumulative — and the linear theories are that assumption made explicit.

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