Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Structural Change

Question:

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions based on it.

If capitalism became the dominant economic system, nation states became the dominant political form. Societies however are not always organised along the lines of nation-states. Nation state pertains to a particular type of state, characteristic of the modern world. A government has sovereign power within a defined territorial area and the people are citizens of a single nation. Nation-state are closely associated with the rise of nationalism. The principle of nationalism assumes that any set of people have a right to be free and exercise sovereign power. It is an important part of the rise of democratic ideas. Nationalism implied that the people of India have an equal right to be sovereign. Indian nationalist during the colonial rule declared 'Swaraj' as their birth-right and fought for both political and economic freedom.

Match concepts given in List-I with their characteristics given in List - II:

List – I Concepts

List – II Characteristics

(A) Capitalism

(I) capitalism, nation-state

(B) Democracy

(II) economic system, dominant system

(C) Swaraj

(III) equality, sovereignty

(D) Modernity

(IV) political and economic freedom

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

List – I Concepts

List – II Characteristics

(A) Capitalism

(II) economic system, dominant system 

(B) Democracy

(III) equality, sovereignty

(C) Swaraj

(IV) political and economic freedom

(D) Modernity

(I) capitalism, nation-state