Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: Modernity spelled not merely new ideas but also rethinking and reinterpretation of tradition. Both culture and traditions are living entities. People learn them and in turn modify them. India's structural and cultural diversity is self-evident. This diversity shapes the different ways that modernisation or westernisation, sanskritisation or secularisation effects or does not effect different groups of people. It is up to you to explore and identify the complex ways modernisation impacts people in different parts of the country or impacts different classes and castes in the same region. And even women and men from the same class or community. |
Which among these is NOT a characteristic of modemisation? |
People influenced not by local but global contexts. Instead of individual, it is the group that becomes the primary unit of change. Association in which men live and work is based on choice and not birth. Utility, calculation and science takes precedence over emotions and irrationality. |
Instead of individual, it is the group that becomes the primary unit of change. |
The correct answer is Option (2) → Instead of individual, it is the group that becomes the primary unit of change. Here's why:
The other options are generally considered characteristics of modernization:
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