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Write short note on Development and Dependency from a sociological perspective.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Sociologically, development is not merely economic growth but a structural transformation of social relations, and dependency is the condition in which that transformation is shaped by an external centre.

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