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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Social Impact of New Technologies in India.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

New technologies — digital communication, payments and identity, biotechnology, and telemedicine — have spread through India faster than through any comparable society, and their social impact follows a consistent pattern: reach expands quickly, redistribution follows slowly, and control shifts upward. Yogendra Singh (Modernization of Indian Tradition, 1973) supplies the frame, distinguishing change at the level…

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  • Communication and money
  • Health and the body
  • Agricultural biotechnology
  • Work and stratification
  • Conclusion

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