Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Globalisation is about worldwide interconnectedness
Option (1) Globalization is only about the movement of commodities — Incorrect. Globalisation deals with many kinds of flows: ideas, capital, commodities and people. The movement of commodities is only one of them.
Option (2) Globalization does not involve a conflict of values — Incorrect. Globalisation can bring new opportunities that clash with older ways. A girl offered a choice that the women of her family never had faces a conflict of values, and that too is part of globalisation.
Option (3) Services are an insignificant part of Globalization — Incorrect. Someone working in a call centre for clients living thousands of miles away is taking part in the globalisation of services, one of its main forms.
Option (4) Globalization is about worldwide interconnectedness — Correct. Globalisation fundamentally deals with flows, and what matters most is the ‘worldwide interconnectedness’ created and sustained by these constant flows.
NCERT (2026-27): “The Concept of Globalisation … All three examples illustrate an aspect each of what we call globalisation. In the first instance Janardhan was participating in the globalisation of services. Ramdhari’s birthday purchases tell us something about the movement of commodities from one part of the world to another. Sarika is faced with a conflict of values partly originating from a new opportunity that earlier was not available to the women in her family but today is part of a reality that has gained wider acceptability.… The Concept of Globalisation … Since much of the usage tends to be imprecise, it becomes important to clarify what we mean by globalisation. Globalisation as a concept fundamentally deals with flows. These flows could be of various kinds — ideas moving from one part of the world to another, capital shunted between two or more places, commodities being traded across borders, and people moving in search of better livelihoods to different parts of the world. The crucial element is the ‘worldwide interconnectedness’ that is created and sustained as a consequence of these constant flows.” |