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How do you differentiate between social change and modernization ? Explain with examples from Indian society.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Social change is the generic sociological category: any significant alteration over time in social structure, institutions or culture, whatever its direction. Modernisation is a species of it — for Yogendra Singh, change towards "a rational attitude towards issues and their evaluation from a universal view point". The relation is therefore asymmetrical: all modernisation is social…

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