List of top Sociology Questions on Social Change and the Economy

Give two characteristics of modernization.
Discuss the impact of liberalization on Indian society.
Define Sanskritization and discuss its role in social mobility as proposed by M.N. Srinivas.
Explain the impact of Westernization and Secularization on Indian traditions.
Which of the following are post-liberalisation developments in India?
[(A)] Ikea store in Hyderabad
[(B)] ICICI-Lombard selling insurance
[(C)] HYV seeds
[(D)] MTV
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What was the central demand of Bardoli Satyagraha?
Who established the Textile Labour Association (TLA)?
Which among these are the consequences of the Green Revolution?
(A) Led to regional inequalities
(B) Increasing mechanisation in agriculture led to displacement of service caste groups
(C) Increase in violence among landed vs landless workers
(D) It was primarily the medium and large farmers who were able to benefit from the new technology
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The process of making Bidis starts in forested villages where villagers pluck Tendu leaves and sell it to the forest department or a private contractor who in turn sells it to the forest department. On average a person can collect 100 bundles (of 50 leaves each) a day. The government then auctions the leaves to Bidi factory owners who give it to contractors. The contractor in turn supplies tobacco and leaves to home-based workers. These workers, mostly women, roll the bidis first dampening the leaves, then cutting them, filling in tobacco evenly and then tying them with thread. The contractor picks up these bidis and sells them to the manufacturer who roasts them and sells them and puts his own brand label. The manufacturer then sells them to a distributor who distributes the packed bidis to wholesalers who in turn sell to your neighborhood pan shops.
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In many ways it was a major political change, namely, the collapse of the erstwhile socialist world that hastened globalisation and also gave a specific economic and political approach to the economic policies that underpin globalisation. These changes are often termed as neo-liberal economic measures. We have already seen what concrete steps the liberalisation policy took in India. Broadly, these policies reflect a political vision of free enterprise which believes that a free reign to market forces will be both efficient and fair. It is, therefore, critical of both State regulation and State subsidies. The existing process of Globalisation in this sense does have a political vision as much as an economic vision.