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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Technology has accelerated the process of development and dependency. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Education System and Social Change

The statement's force lies in holding both halves together. Technology is at once the instrument that compresses the time a society needs to develop and the channel through which its subordination to others is renewed. Sociologically, the two are not opposites but the same process seen from different ends of a chain.

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  • Technology as accelerator of development
  • Technology as the carrier of dependency
  • Both at once: the decisive formulation
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