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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social consequences of science and technology in India.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

In India science and technology arrived as instruments of a planned developmental state, so their effects were filtered through caste, class, gender and region rather than dissolving them. The record is one of genuine new capability alongside newly technologised inequality.

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  • Agrarian transformation
  • Health transition
  • Technology and gender: sex determination
  • Digital stratification
  • Displacement
  • Conclusion

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