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How many basic classes do capitalists have?
  • a)
    Five
  • b)
    Two 
  • c)
    Three
  • d)
    Four
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Curiosity Classes answered
Two basic classes of capitalists are:
1. Who owns the means of production (such as the factories), and workers.
2. Who sells their labour to the capitalists.
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Who coined the term status symbol to describe this relationship?
  • a)
    Karl Marx
  • b)
    Hitler
  • c)
    Max Weber 
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Rajesh Gupta answered
Think of the advertisements that we see every day on television and roadside hoardings and the meanings that advertisers try to attach to consumer goods in order to sell them. One of the sociology founders, Max Weber, was among the first to point out that people’s goods and use are closely related to their status in society.

What are the majority of non-tribals in the Bastar district?
  • a)
    Hindu 
  • b)
    Sikh
  • c)
    Jain
  • d)
    Buddhist
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
At the weekly market, you find local people, including tribals and non-tribals (mostly Hindus) and outsiders, mainly Hindu traders of various castes. Different social groups are located according to their position in the caste and social hierarchy as well as in the market system. The wealthy and high-ranking Rajput jeweller and the middle-ranking local Hindu traders sit in the central zones and the tribal sellers of vegetables and local wares in the outer circles.

What tribe controlled the salt trade during the colonial period?
  • a)
    Suni
  • b)
    Banjaras 
  • c)
    Alvars
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
Merchant communities did not always have a high status in society; for instance, during the colonial period, the long-distance trade in salt was controlled by a marginalized tribal group, the banjaras.

Who was the most famous of the early political economists?
  • a)
    Newton
  • b)
    William Wordsworth
  • c)
    Adam Smith 
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
The most famous of the early political economists were adam smith, who, in his book, the wealth of nations, attempted to understand the market economy that was just emerging at that time.

In earlier times, human beings were bought and sold as what?
  • a)
    Slaves 
  • b)
    Kings
  • c)
    Culprits
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
Human beings themselves were bought and sold as slaves in earlier times, but today it is considered immoral to treat people as commodities.

What did traders and moneylenders’ entry from outside the local area lead to?
  • a)
    Impoverishment 
  • b)
    Poverishmen
  • c)
    Destitution
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
The entry of traders and moneylenders from outside the local area led to Adivasis’s impoverishment, many of whom lost their land to outsiders. The weekly market as a social institution links between the local tribal economy and the outside. The exploitative economic relationships between Adivasis and others are illustrated by a study of a weekly market in Bastar district.

Who has attempted to develop an alternative way of studying economic institutions and processes within the larger social framework?
  • a)
    Anthropologists
  • b)
    Psychologists
  • c)
    Criminologists
  • d)
    Sociologists 
Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
In contrast to this approach, sociologists have attempted to develop an alternative way of studying economic institutions and processes within the larger social framework. Sociologists view markets as social institutions that are constructed in culturally specific ways.

Who do weekly tribal markets attract from outside the local area?
  • a)
    Lawyers
  • b)
    Speculators
  • c)
    Traders 
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
They attract traders from outside the local area and moneylenders, entertainers, astrologers, and a host of other specialists offering their services and wares. In hilly and forested areas (mainly inhabited by Adivasis), where settlements are far-flung, roads and communications are poor, and the economy is relatively undeveloped, the weekly market is the primary institution for the exchange of goods as well as for social intercourse. Local people come to the market to sell their agricultural or forest produce to traders, who carry it to resale towns. They buy essentials such as assault and farming implements and consumption items such as bangles and jewellery.

What is the french term for economic philosophy that means leave alone or let it be?
  • a)
    Free-Market
  • b)
    Laissez
  • c)
    Laissez-Faire 
  • d)
    Liberalism
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
This economic philosophy was also given the name laissez-faire, a french phrase that means leave alone or let it be. Modern economics developed from early thinkers’ ideas such as adam smith and is based on the idea that the economy can be studied as a separate part of society that operates according to its own laws, leaving out the more prominent social or political context in which markets operate.

What did many Marwari families accumulate enough wealth to become?
  • a)
    Moneylenders 
  • b)
    Farmers
  • c)
    Politicians
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
Many Marwari families accumulated enough wealth to become moneylenders, and by acting as bankers also helped the commercial expansion of the British in India.

Who was one of the founders of modern sociology?
  • a)
    Aryabhatta
  • b)
    Newton
  • c)
    Karl Marx 
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
One of the founders of modern sociology, Karl Marx, was also a critic of modern capitalism. Karl Marx understood capitalism as a system of commodity production, or production for the market, through the use of wage labour.

What is an essential instrument of exchange and credit?
  • a)
    Chilo
  • b)
    Hundi 
  • c)
    Hawala
  • d)
    None
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
An important exchange and credit instrument was the hundi, or bill of exchange (like a credit note), which allowed merchants to engage in long-distance trade. Because trade took place primarily within the caste and kinship networks of these communities, a merchant in one part of the country could issue a hundi that would be honoured by a merchant in another place. The Nattukottai Chettiars (or nakarattars) of Tamil Nadu provide an interesting illustration of how these indigenous trading networks were organised and worked.

Economic transformation was thought to have begun only with the advent of what?
  • a)
    Nationalism
  • b)
    Neo-Colonialism
  • c)
    Colonialism 
  • d)
    Oppression
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?

Arun Yadav answered
Economic transformation was thought to have begun only with the advent of colonialism. Economic transformation was assumed that India consisted of ancient village communities that were relatively self-sufficient and that their economies were organised primarily based on non-market exchange.

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