Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Write short note : Indicators of modernisation in Indian society.
- UPSC 1996
- Visions of Social Change in India
Indicators are the empirical handles by which an abstract process is measured. Daniel Lerner (The Passing of Traditional Society, 1958) proposed urbanisation, literacy, media exposure and political participation as a self-reinforcing set; Yogendra Singh (Modernisation of Indian Tradition, 1973) insisted that structural indicators must be read alongside cultural ones, since modernisation for him means a…
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