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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Science and Social Behaviour.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

Science alters not only what a society knows but how its members act — how they treat illness, weather, birth and misfortune. The sociologically interesting question is why conduct changes so much more slowly than knowledge, and why non-scientific behaviour survives in the most scientifically equipped societies.

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  • Science as a mode of conduct
  • The Indian project of scientific temper
  • Why non-scientific behaviour persists
  • Conclusion

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