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How is modernisation an agent of change? Discuss its positive and negative aspects.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Modernisation is not merely a label for change; it is a mechanism of it. Talcott Parsons, Marion J. Levy and Neil Smelser treated it as a shift in the very architecture of society, while Yogendra Singh (Modernisation of Indian Tradition, 1973) insisted it means a rational and universalistic attitude to issues rather than imitation of…

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