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Explain the idea of social responsibility of science. Analyse the social consequences of development of science and technology in the context of removal of backwardness in developing societies.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

Science is not only a method but a social institution with its own norms, patrons and consequences. The question carries two demands: what obligation that institution owes society, and what happens when it is mobilised by a late-developing society to abolish backwardness.

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  • The idea of social responsibility of science
  • Social consequences in the removal of backwardness
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