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How far are social policy and directed social change effective in social development?

  • UPSC 1989
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Directed social change is change consciously planned, initiated and steered by an agency — normally the state — as against change that accumulates from technology, diffusion or conflict; social policy is its principal instrument. India after 1947 is the largest experiment of this kind ever attempted. The honest answer to "how far" is: highly effective…

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  • Where directed change has worked
  • Where it has been ineffective
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