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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social consequences of economic development.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Works and Economic Life

Economic development means sustained growth in output together with a structural shift from agriculture to industry and services. Its social consequences cut both ways: it widens opportunity and capability, but it also uproots communities, sharpens inequality and strains the environment. Who gains and who pays is itself a sociological question.

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