Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Globalisation and Social Change

Question:

Read the given passage carefully and answer the next five questions.

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.

What is the central political vision reflected in the economic policies underpinning Globalisation?

Options:

Free enterprise

State subsidies

Centralised power

State regulation

Correct Answer:

Free enterprise

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) - Free enterprise

The passage indicates that the central political vision reflected in the economic policies underpinning globalisation is one of free enterprise, which involves giving market forces free reign and being critical of state regulation and state subsidies.