Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

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

Question:
Industrialization leads to greater equality, at least in some spheres. For example, caste distinctions do not matter anymore on trains, buses, or in cyber cafes. On the other hand, older forms of discrimination may persist even in a new factory or workplace setting. And even as social inequalities are reducing, economic or income inequality is growing in the world. Often social inequality and income inequality overlap, for example, in the domination of upper-caste men in well-paying professions like medicine, law, or journalism. Women often get paid less than men for similar work.
The division of labour, which is the feature of industrialization the work is often repetitive and exhausting because they are producing only one small part of a product. It creates a situation in which labourers often do not see the end result of their work. Karl Marx called this as ____________
Options:
Disillusion
Disenchantment
Commodification.
Alienation.
Correct Answer:
Alienation.
Explanation:
Karl Marx called it "alienation", which is a process in which a labourer is separated from the product he/she creates.