Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Politics of Planned Development

Question:

With which of the following ideas is modernization associated?

Options:

Growth

Scientific rationality

Material progress

All of the above

Correct Answer:

All of the above

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - All of the above

Option 1- Growth
Option 2- Scientific rationality
Option 3- Material progress
Option 4- All of the above

It was and is still common for people to refer to the ‘West’ as the standard for measuring development. ‘Development’ was about becoming more ‘modern’ and modern was about becoming more like the industrialised countries of the West. This is how common people as well as the experts thought. It was believed that every country would go through the process of modernisation as in the West, which involved the breakdown of traditional social structures and the rise of capitalism and liberalism. Modernisation was also associated with the ideas of growth, material progress and scientific rationality. This kind of idea of development allowed everyone to talk about different countries as developed, developing or underdeveloped.