Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Write short note on the following with a sociological perspective : Westernization and institutional changes in India.
- UPSC 2012
- Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society
For M. N. Srinivas, Westernisation worked at four levels — technology, institutions, ideology and values — and the institutional level is where its effects were most durable. British rule did not merely add institutions; it replaced the principle on which older ones ran, substituting impersonal, codified, universalistic rules for those of birth, ritual status and…
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- Law and the courts
- Education and the occupational structure
- Bureaucracy and the army
- Press, print and the paradox of caste associations
- Family, marriage and property
- Political institutions
- …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion
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