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2022 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2022

Commodity chain is defined as _____.

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a series of production stages, or network of labour inputs, distributed globally among production sites

B

importing commodities to meet the domestic needs

C

outsourcing the marketing of commodities to private agencies

D

import substituted industrialization

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2022 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2022

Which of the following statements are correct?
[i] Gustavo Esteva argues that the 1949 address of the US President Harry S. Truman marks the opening of the era of development.
[ii] According to Escobar, ‘development can best be described as an apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the Third World with the deployment of forms of power and intervention, resulting in the mapping and production of Third World societies’.

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[i] only

B

[ii] only

C

Both [i] and [ii]

D

Neither [i] nor [ii]

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2022 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2022

According to Andre Gunder Frank, which of the following factors are responsible for the development of underdevelopment in Latin America?

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The survival of archaic institutions

B

The relationship between the satellite and the metropolis

C

The existence of capital shortage in developed regions

D

Participation in the process of world capitalist development

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2022 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2022

Which of the following statements describe the concept of sustainable development?

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Shrinking role of the government in favour of the market forces

B

Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future generations

C

Conserving natural resources and adopting appropriate technologies

D

Privileging of the urban classes and manufacturing sector over rural society

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2023 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2023

According to the World Commission on Environment and Development, 'sustainable development' refers to __________________.

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Development that meets the needs of the present

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Development that meets the needs of the future

C

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

D

Development that meets the needs of the past

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2024 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2024

Which of the following is / are associated with liberalization of the world economy?

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Withdrawal of the state from provision of welfare measures

B

Planned economy

C

Capital's search for the cheapest resource

D

The presence of tariff barriers

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2025 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025

In post-development theories, M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj is understood as a text that represents:

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Critique of modernisation

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Critique of industrialisation

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Critique of Varna system

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Critique of honour killings

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2025 · Sociology · Sociology of Development · Development and its critique

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025

Which of the following statement(s) about Arturo Escobar’s work Encountering Development is/are CORRECT?

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He was highly inspired by the 1949 inaugural address by U.S President Harry Truman, which proposed that U.S.A should play an active role in solving global poverty

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He stated that development was a top-down, ethnocentric and techno-centric approach, which treated people and cultures as abstract concepts, statistical figures to be moved up and down in the chart of progress

C

He stated that opponents of the development discourse were also forced to articulate their critiques within the ‘development’ framework

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He did not see much hope in autonomous peasant development strategies as they would be very limited in their scope

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