Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Challenges of Cultural Diversity

Question:

Policies that are aimed at persuasion, encouraging or forcing all citizens to adopt a uniform set of culture values and norms are ___________.

Options:

Assimilationist

Integrationist

Non-assimilationist

Dis-integrationist

Correct Answer:

Assimilationist

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) → Assimilationist

Policies that promote assimilation are aimed at persuading, encouraging or forcing all citizens to adopt a uniform set of cultural values and norms. These values and norms are usually entirely or largely those of the dominant social group. Other, non-dominant or subordinated groups in society are expected or required to give up their own cultural values and adopt the prescribed ones. Policies promoting integration are different in style but not in overall objective: they insist that the public culture be restricted to a common national pattern, while all ‘non-national’ cultures are to be relegated to the private sphere. In this case too, there is the danger of the dominant group’s culture being treated as ‘national’ culture.