Monday, December 8, 2014

Explain why it is not urbanization alone, but urbanization combined with industrialization, which is responsible for far-reaching changes in society. (250 Words)

  • According to Yogendra Singh, many new roles often rational and modern were added to traditional institutions. 
  • Urbanization was not new phenomenon but industrialization intensified it.
  • Earlier urban centers were established for religious and administrative reasons but industrialization changed the character of urbanization. It was due to new dynamic economic activity called capitalism. Cities became center of not only trade and commerce but of production.
  • Industrialization led to all around change in character and organization of urban society: 
    • Pros
      • Less religious, secular orientation
      • More employment
      • Organized and efficient production
      • Bureaucratic setup which was impersonal and objective
      • New institutions such as banking, stock markets, industry, ports etc
      • infrastructures
    • Cons
      • New classes, working class, middle class and bourgeoisie
      • Poverty, growth of slums, unhygienic working environment
      • Working class unrest
      • Consumerism
      • Nuclear families, less Religious , Ghost villages and purchasing power, how movies and malls overtaking the jobs of parents still so many things 

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