Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Market as a social Institution

Question:

The process by which something which was not a commodity is made a commodity and becomes part of the market economy is known as:

Options:

Commercialisation

Commodification

Globalisation

Marketisation

Correct Answer:

Commodification

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Commodification

Commodification occurs when things that were earlier not traded in the market become commodities. For instance, labour or skills become things that can be bought and sold.