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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Religious factor in economic development.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Religion and Society

Whether religion helps or hinders economic development is one of sociology's founding debates. Against Karl Marx's view that economic structure shapes religious ideas, Max Weber argued that religious ethics can independently orient economic conduct. Later research has qualified rather than settled that claim.

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  • Weber's thesis
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