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Define work in the organised sector.
Concept: Industrialisation in India
What is the basic task of a manager?
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
Who wrote the book 'Sultana's Dream'? Why is this a remarkable story?
Concept: Struggle for Women’s Equality and Rights
Read the passage given and answer the question:
| The following observations were made by G.B. Pant during a speech that moved the constitution of the Advisory Committee on fundamental rights, minorities, etc. "We have to take particular care of the Depressed Classes, the Scheduled Castes, and the Backward Classes ...we must do all we can to bring them up to the general level..the strength of the chain is measured by the weakest link of it and so until every link is fully revitalised, we will not have a healthy body politic. Recent years have seen renewed debate about the States' decisions on reservation to this section." |
- Based on the passage above, who are referred to as the weakest link of the society?
- Why should and how can this weakest link be fully revitalised?
- Define 'Secularisation of caste'
Concept: Caste and Tribe – Systems Justifying and Perpetuating Inequality
Discuss the phenomenon of 'Time slavery' in the IT sector.
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
Stereotypes fix whole groups into single ______ categories, they refuse to recognize the ______ across individuals and across context or across time.
Concept: What is Social About Social Inequality and Exclusion?
Major difference between developing and developed countries is in the number of people in ______ salaried employment.
Concept: Industrialisation in India
| In Modern Foods, which was set up by the government to make healthy bread available at cheap prices, and which was the first company to be privatised, 60% of the workers were forced to retire in the first five years. |
Based on the given passage, answer the following question.
- What do you mean by disinvestment?
- How did disinvestment impact the workers?
Concept: Industrialisation in India
| “In Maruti Udyog Ltd. two cars roll off the assembly line every minute. Workers get only 45 minutes rest in the entire day - two tea breaks of 7.5 minutes each and one lunch break of half an hour. Most of them are exhausted by the age of 40 and take voluntary retirement.” |
Based upon above passage, answer the following question.
What, according to you, is the impact of the factory‟s working condition on the workers and on the factory?
Concept: How is Work Carried Out?
“If hard labour were such a good thing the rich would keep it all for themselves. All over the world, back-breaking work like stone breaking, digging, carrying heavy weights, pulling rickshaws or carts is invariably done by the poor. And yet they rarely improve their life chances.” Which social phenomena is reflected in this proverb? Give any two characteristics of this phenomena.
Concept: What is Social About Social Inequality and Exclusion?
“It is often assumed that social reform for women’s rights was entirely fought for by male reformers and that ideas of women’s equality are alien imports.” Is this true or false? Give reasons for your answer.
Concept: Struggle for Women’s Equality and Rights
Assertion (A): People often do not see the end result of their work because they are producing only one small part of a product.
Reason(R): Industrialisation involves a detailed division of labour where people do not enjoy work, and see it as something they have to do only in order to survive.
Concept: Images of Industrial Society
Assertion(A): The everydayness of social inequality and exclusion often make them appear inevitable, almost natural.
Reason(R): The common-sense understanding is that the poor and marginalised are where they are because they are lacking in ability, or haven’t tried hard enough to improve their situation.
Concept: Introduction to Pattern of Social Inquality and Exclusion
Person from a well-off family can afford expensive higher education. Someone with influential relatives and friends may - through access to good advice, recommendations or information - manage to get a well paid job.
Which concept is being talked of?
Concept: What is Social About Social Inequality and Exclusion?
Using an example, describe adivasis internal colonialism.
Concept: Caste and Tribe – Systems Justifying and Perpetuating Inequality
The 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act revised and strengthened the legal provisions punishing acts of violence or humiliation against Dalits and adivasis. Legislation on this subject was passed repeatedly.
Do you think state action alone can ensure social change? Give reasons for your answer.
Concept: Caste and Tribe – Systems Justifying and Perpetuating Inequality
What changes did globalization and liberalization introduce in the Indian industrial society?
Concept: Industrialisation in India
What is communalism?
Concept: The Nation-state and Religion-related Issues and Identities
Can we apply the distinction between old and new social movements in the Indian context?
Concept: Regionalism in the Indian Context
Historically, states have tried to establish and enhance their political legitimacy through nation-building strategies. They sought to secure the loyalty and obedience of their citizens through policies of assimilation or integration. Attaining these objectives was not easy, especially in a context of cultural diversity where citizens, in addition to their identifications with their country, might also feel a strong sense of identity with their community - ethnic, religious, linguistic, and so on.
Two nation-building strategies used were ______.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
