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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Industrialisation and social change.

  • UPSC 2002, 1997
  • Works and Economic Life

Industrialisation is the shift from human and animal energy to machine power, and from household and craft production to factory production. The Industrial Revolution, which began in England around 1760, gave sociology its founding problem: how a society is reordered when the way it produces changes.

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  • Classical readings
  • Dimensions of change
  • The convergence debate
  • The Indian experience
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