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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Is humanity at the mercy of nature, science and technology? Comment in the light of the pandemic situation.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

The question assumes three external masters. Sociology's answer is that the pandemic revealed none of them to be external: the "natural" hazard was socially manufactured, the science was institutionally governed, and the technology was distributed by power. Humanity is at the mercy chiefly of its own arrangements.

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  • The case for helplessness: the risk society
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