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Write short note: Directed social change.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Social change is a value-neutral concept — alteration in social structure and social relationships, from whatever source. Directed social change narrows it: change consciously induced towards a stated goal by an identifiable agency through deliberate instruments. It is the category that links change to intention, and therefore to accountability.

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