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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Science and Social Responsibility.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

Knowledge is separable from its application, but scientists, laboratories and states are not separable from the consequences. Social responsibility is the sociological question of who is answerable for knowledge once it leaves the laboratory — and the answer has shifted from the individual conscience to institutional design.

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  • Responsibility as an institutional property
  • Dual-use research
  • Ethics committees and regulation
  • Whistle-blowing
  • Industrial and agricultural risk
  • Data ethics
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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