Globalisation and Social Change — Sociology STD 12 Humanities — Question

How media-exposure has accelerated the process of change in India?

Have you heard of Bal Panchayats and Mazdoor Kissan Sanghathan? If not, find out and write a note about them in about 200 words.

Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
Peddolla Napidi Bhumana hanged himself at home in Donchanda village of Morthad Mandal late on Friday night. It’s learnt that the 55-year old farmer, faced with crop failure, was driven to desperation because he was unable to clear his mounting debts. Most suicides in Andhra Pradesh have been reported from the arid regions of Telangana and Rayalaseema where farmers are heavily dependent on rain.
As in Vidarbha last year, most of the suicides have been farmers who had borrowed heavily from private moneylenders at exorbitant interest rates. The loans were taken to dig borewells to tap ground water for cotton and other vegetable crops in the absence of rain. The situation has been exacerbated by the falling water table in these districts.
(Taken from a report in The Times of India of 16/08/09)

1. Which are the regions where most farmers’ suicides have taken place? Why have these regions been affected?
2. What are some of the changes in rural society and the agrarian economy that are responsible for farmers’ suicides?

Enumerate different levels at which Sanskritisation as a concept has been criticised.

Read the following passage and give the answer to the following questions:To facilitate the smooth functioning of its rule, colonialism introduced a wide array of changes in every sphere, be it legal or cultural or architectural. Colonialism was a story apart in the very scale and intensity of the changes that it brought about. Some of these changes were deliberate while some took place in an unintended fashion. For example, we saw how Western education was introduced to create Indians who would manage British colonialism. Instead, it led to the growth of a nationalist and anti-colonial consciousness.

1. What do you understand by the term 'Colonialism'?
2. What structural changes were seen in India during the Colonial period?

What were the social consequences of green revolution?

Can we apply the distinction between old and new social movements in the Indian context?

How new technologies speeded up various forms of communication?

Discuss working conditions of employees in India.

If capitalism became the dominant economic system in the colonial period, nation-states became the dominant political form. Explain how this process took place.