Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

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

Question:

Clark Kerr has proposed a thesis to explain industrialisation in India. It is called the _____________.

Options:

Modernization Theory

Centre-periphery Theory

Theory of Underdevelopment

Convergence thesis

Correct Answer:

Convergence thesis

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → Convergence thesis

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.