Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Structural Change

Question:

Identify the first society to undergo industrialization.

Options:

United Kingdom

Britain

France

Germany

Correct Answer:

Britain

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Britain

Britain was the first society to undergo industrialisation in early 18th Century.

Note: England is one of the four countries, along with Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, that make up the sovereign nation of the UK. In fact, the union of these nations is what the United in United Kingdom refers to.  The term 'United Kingdom came to existence in 1800 when the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland each passed an Act of Union, uniting the two kingdoms and creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801.

Thus, the correct answer for the question would be Britain and NOT United Kingdom which came into existence much later after the industrial revolution in Britain.