Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Mass Media and Communication

Question:
According to Benedict Anderson, how did 'the 19th-century people start to acquire a "we feeling"?
Options:
The emergence of the mass media and modern means for communication and transport filled the people with a 'we feeling', resulting in modern nation states' constitution.
The emergence of colonialism and suppression of the colonies filled the people from colonizing nations with a 'we feeling'.
Globalization and the spread of English and western culture are responsible for the spread of this 'we feeling' in the 19th century.
Destruction of Monarchy and the emergence of parliamentary democracy is responsible for the spread of the' we feeling in the 19th century.
Correct Answer:
The emergence of the mass media and modern means for communication and transport filled the people with a 'we feeling', resulting in modern nation states' constitution.
Explanation:
f belonging or ‘we feeling’. The well known scholar Benedict Anderson has thus argued that this helped the growth of nationalism, the feeling that people who did not even know of each other’s existence feel like members of a family. It gave people who would never meet each other a sense of togetherness. Anderson thus suggested that we could think of the nation as an ‘imagined community