CULTURAL CHANGE
Chapter 2: CULTURAL CHANGE · SOCIOLOGY-SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA · EN medium
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W esternisation You have already read about our western colonial past. You have seen how it often brought about changes that were paradoxical and strange. M.N. Srinivas defines westernisation as “the changes brought about in Indian society and culture as a result of over years of British rule, the term subsuming changes occurring at different levels…technology, institutions, ideology and values”. Read the section on Sanskritisation very carefully. Do you think that this process is gendered, i.e., it affects women differently from men. Do you think that even if it does lead to positional change among men, the reverse may be true about women?
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W esternisation You have already read about our western colonial past. You have seen how it often brought about changes that were paradoxical and strange. M.N. Srinivas defines westernisation as “the changes brought about in Indian society and culture as a result of over years of British rule, the term subsuming changes occurring at different levels…technology, institutions, ideology and values”.
Read the section on Sanskritisation very carefully. Do you think that this process is gendered, i.e., it affects women differently from men. Do you think that even if it does lead to positional change among men, the reverse may be true about women?
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