Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Change and Development in industrial Society

Question:

An industrialised India of the 21st century shares more features with China or the United States in 21st century than it shares with 19th century India. This can be understood as an example of which of the following?

Options:

Resource mobilisation theory

Convergence thesis

Modernisation

Secularisation

Correct Answer:

Convergence thesis

Explanation:

According to the convergence thesis put forward by modernisation theorist Clark Kerr, an industrialised India of the 21st century shares more features with China or the United States in the 21st century than it shares with 19th century India.