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Human factors involved in directed social change.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Directed social change is change deliberately induced towards a chosen goal by an identifiable agency. Its blueprints are technical; its execution is human. S. C. Dube's study of the Community Development Programme — aptly subtitled Human Factors in Community Development (India's Changing Villages, 1958) — showed that results were decided less by the programme's design…

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  • The change agent
  • Leadership, elites and the structure of influence
  • Motivation and personality
  • Resistance and vested interests
  • Conclusion

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