Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

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

Question:
Karl Marx developed the concept of alienation in order to understand working class in industrial capitalist societies. Identify the ways the worker are alienated in an industrial society according to Marx:
I. They are alienated from the product.
II. They are alienated from profit making.
III. They are alienated from their true inner self.
IV. They are alienated from the production work itself
Options:
I,II and III
II, III and IV
I and II
I, III and IV
Correct Answer:
I, III and IV
Explanation:
Marx postulated four types of alienation: i) Alienation from the product, ii)Alienation from the process of production, iii)Alienation from their true inner self and iv)Alienation from other co-workers.