Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Cultural Change

Question:

Choose the statement that explains the concepts of modernization:

Options:

It assumes that local ties of modernisation and parochial perspectives give way to universal commitments and cosmopolitan attitudes

is based on religions beliefs and attitudes

focuses on fatalistic belief

emphasises irrationality over rationality

Correct Answer:

It assumes that local ties of modernisation and parochial perspectives give way to universal commitments and cosmopolitan attitudes

Explanation:

‘[M]odernity’ assumes that local ties and parochial perspectives give way to universal commitments and cosmopolitan attitudes; that the truths of utility, calculation, and science take precedence over those of the emotions, the sacred, and the non-rational; that the individual rather than the group be the primary unit of society and politics; that the associations in which men live and work be based on choice not birth; that mastery rather than fatalism orient their attitude toward the material and human environment; that identity be chosen and achieved, not ascribed and affirmed; that work be separated from family, residence, and community in bureaucratic organisation....(Rudolph and Rudolph, 1967