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How well do you think Tönnies, Durkheim, Weber and Marx predicted the character of modern society? Critique.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Sociological Thinkers

The classical thinkers wrote amid industrialisation and each projected one master trend into the future. Their diagnoses proved strikingly durable. Their forecasts, however, were only partly borne out, because each read modernity through a single lens and from Europe.

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