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Change and Development in Industrial Society

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · Sociology

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1. Images of Industrial Society

  • Industrialisation changes social life through urbanisation, division of labour, and anonymous professional relationships.
  • Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim linked industrialisation with urbanisation and the loss of face-to-face rural relationships.
  • Industrial work is often repetitive and exhausting because workers produce only a small part of a product.
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2. Employment Patterns in India

  • In developed countries, most people work in services, followed by industry, and less than 10% are in agriculture.
  • In India in 2018–19, employment in agriculture was 42.5%, mining and quarrying 0.4%, manufacturing 12.1%, trade/hotel/restaurant 12.6%, transport/storage/communication 5.9%, and community/social/perso
  • Services contribute approximately more than half of economic growth even though agriculture still employs a large share of workers.
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3. Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Outsourcing

  • Since the 1990s, liberalisation has encouraged private and foreign investment in sectors earlier reserved for the government.
  • Many Indian companies have been bought by multinationals, and some Indian companies are becoming multinational companies.
  • Parle's annual turnover was ₹250 crores while Coca Cola's advertising budget alone was ₹400 crores.
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4. Finding Jobs and Recruitment Patterns

  • Only a small percentage of people get jobs through advertisements or employment exchanges.
  • Self-employed workers depend on personal contacts and reputation for getting work.
  • In Kanpur textile mills, jobbers were known as mistris.

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Industrialisation creates urbanisationAlienation is the situation inClark Kerr’s convergence thesis saysIn IndiaThe organised sector includes units employing

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