EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
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Question
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Modernisation is the outcome of social change
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Social change is the outcome of modernisation
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Social change and modernisation mean the same thing
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None of these is incorrect
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Detailed explanation-1: -Modernization is a form of social change in which the activities of a more traditional culture are aligned with the activities, institutions, and tools of industrialized nations (Inkeles & Smith, 1974).
Detailed explanation-2: -As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, community, or occupational group as the basic unit of society. Division of labour, characteristic of industrialization, is also applied to institutions, which become more highly specialized.
Detailed explanation-3: -Modernization theory refers to a body of theory that became prominent in the 1950s and 1960s in relation to understanding issues of economic and social development and in creating policies that would assist economic and social transitions in poorer countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -The net effect of modernization for some societies was therefore the replacement of traditional poverty by a more modern form of misery, according to these critics. Others point to improvements in living standards, physical infrastructure, education and economic opportunity to refute such criticisms.