Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

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

Question:

Read the passage given below and answer the question.

Thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim associated a number of social features with industry, such as urbanisation, loss of face-to-face relationships that are found in rural areas. This was substituted by anony-mous professional relationships in modern factory and workplace. Industrialisation involves a detailed division of labour people often do not see the end result of their work because they are producing only small part of product the work is often repetitive and exhausting, however it is better than being unemployed. Marx calls this situation alienation where people do not enjoy work and see it as something they have to do in order to survive.

Job in industry is not ____________.

Options:

repetitive

exhaustive

enjoyable

alienating

Correct Answer:

enjoyable

Explanation:

As per these sociologists, job in industry is repetitive, exhaustive and alienating.