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I. Meaning of globalisation:

• There is no one meaning or definition of the term (or of the word) ‘globalisation’. Indeed wefind different that different subjects focus on different aspects of globalization for instance, economics may be dealing more with the economic dimensions such as capital flows, Political Science may focus on the changing role of governments. 

• The very process of globalisation is so far-reaching that disciplines have to increasingly borrow from each other to understand both are causes and consequences of globalization. 

• The scope of sociological study is extremely wide. It can focus its analysis of interactions between individuals such as that of a shopkeeper with a customer, between teachers and students, between two friends or family members. 

• It can likewise focus on national issue such as unemployment or caste conflict or the effect of state policies on forest rights of the tribal population or rural indebtedness. 

• Global social processes such as the impact of new flexible labour regulations on the working class, or that of the electronic media on the young, or the entry of foreign universities on the education system of the country. 

• What defines the discipline of sociology is, therefore, not just what it studies (i.e., family or trade unions or villages) but how it studies a chosen field. 

• Sociology is not defined by what it studies but how it studies. It would be not quite right to state that sociology only studies the social or cultural consequences of globalization. What it does is the use of sociological imagination to make sense of the connections between the individual and society, the micro and the macro, the local and the global.

II.International companies, their adopted strategy and cultural synthesis in India 

• Since April 1, 2001, all types of quantitative restrictions (QR) on imports were withdrawn. It is no surprise now to find a Chinese pear, an Australian apple vying for attention in the local fruit stall. The neighbourhood store also has Australian orange juice and ready to fry chips in frozen packets. 

• What we eat and drink at home with our family and friends slowly changes. The same set of policy changes affects consumers and producers differently. 

• They are obviously also linked to public policies adopted by the government and its agreement with the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Likewise macro policy changes have meant that instead of one television channel we have literally scores today. 

• Sociological imagination enables to make this connects between the micro and the macro, between the personal and public. 

• Among the many economic factors driving globalization, the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) is particularly important.

The Impact of Globalisation on Culture. 

1. Globalisation in the last decade (1999-2000) has seen major cultural changes leading to fears that our local cultures would be overtaken. 

2. From time to time we listen about heated debates (or discussion) in our society (or on mass media) not just about political and economic issues but also about changes in clothes, styles,music,dance, films, languages, body-languages. 

3. The 19th century socio-religious reformers and early nationalists (moderates also debated on culture and tradition. The issues today are in some ways the same ways different. What is perhaps different is the scale and intensity of change. 

4. Some of the scholars declares that India’s cultural traditional has been wary of the Kupamanduka, the frog that lives its whole life within a well, knows nothing else,and is suspicious of everything outside it. It talks to no one, and argues with no one on anything. It merely harbours the deepest suspicion of the outside world. Fortunately for us we retain our ‘traditional’ open-minded attitude to this day. 

5. All cultures are homogeneous. There is an increasing tendency towards globalization of culture. Globalization refers to the mixing of the global with the local. It is not entirely delinked from the commercial interests of globalization. 

6. It is a strategy often adopted by foreign firms while dealing with local traditions in order to enhance their marketability. In India, we find that all the foreign television channels like Star, MTV, Channel V and Cartoon Network use Indian languages, even McDonald sells only vegetarian and chicken products in India and not its beef products, which are popular abroad. McDonald’s goes vegetarian during the Navaratri Festival. 

7. The strength of Indian culture has been its open-minded approach. Culture cannot be seen as an unchanging fixed entity that can either collapse or remain the same when faced with social change.

A) Bala Saraswathi

The writer thought that the people of India were self-respecting and very gentle. They preferred starvation to begging.

1. The full form of ARPANET is Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. 

2. The first workable prototype of the internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. 

3. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network. 

4. The full form of TCP/ IP is Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. 

5. Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol communications model that set standards for how data could be transmitted between multiple networks. 

6. The full form of WWW is World Wide Web.

7. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

Data can be any character, text, word, number, or raw facts.

Examples of Data: 

Mumbai, 1234, Aditya, MG Road, Maharashtra, 9444444441, 411004

Information is data formatted in a manner that allows it to be utilized by human beings in some significant way. 

Examples of Information:

Aditya, 1234, MG Road, Mumbai 400004, Maharashtra, 944444444114.

Datta has learnt by his long experience that his customers never come punctually. They come days in advance and go away disappointed or come months later

दत्ता ने अपने लम्बे अनुभव से सीख लिया है कि उसके ग्राहक कभी भी समय पर नहीं आते हैं। वे कई दिनों पहले आते हैं और निराश होकर जाते हैं या महिनों के बाद आते हैं।

1. Network architecture is the design of a computer network. 

2. A Peer-to-Peer network has no dedicated servers. 

3. Client-Server type of architecture is most suitable for larger networks. 

4. A computer that is seeking any resource from another computer is a Client computer. 

5. If a computer has a resource that is served to another computer, it is a Server computer.

The condition (plight) of refugees was very pitiable. For a living they were making simple articles and selling them in the market. 

1. The word Computer is derived from the Latin word Computare.

2. An electronic device that accepts input from the user, processes it according to the instructions given to it, and gives the required result in the form of output, is a Computer. 

3. The computer can process data, images, audio, video, and graphics.

 4. Computer accepts data or instructions by way of input. 

5. Computer stores data. 

6. A computer can process data as required by the user. 

7. The computer gives results in the form of output. 

8. The computer controls all operations inside a computer.

The writer discovered that the income of the peasant refugees was very low. They could hardly earn one square meal a day. 

William C. Douglas got down from his compartment at every stoppage. He talked to the people of every class to get a feel of the pulse of the nation.

Social Networking site is mostly used Facebook 

5 slogans on Don’t waste water’. 

1 ‘Water is our currency Use it with care’ 

2. ‘Water is our life. Save it’. 

3. ‘Water is precious. Use it but do not throw it’. 

4. ‘Save water. Never become a partner for its shortage’. 

5. ‘Water is life. Life is not water’.

a) 

1) We perform many activities in our daiiy life using water. 

2) We can conserve water by adopting certain good practices. 

b) Some practices that can be adopted: 

1. Water is precious. We should not waste it. 

2. Collect water in a bucket after cleaning rice, dal and vegetables in the kitchen which contains peels of vegetables. 

3. We can use this water for our cattle. 

4. We should not throw solid food remains, tea leaves and oily wastes down the drain. 

5. We must make a channel so that the kitchen and bath room water flows to the coconut and banana plants in our garden. 

6. We should use only mild soaps and detergents so that this water may not harm our plants. 

7. Any leakage of water from any tap must be repaired immediately.

1. Computer Architecture is a specification detailing how a set of software and hardware technology standards interact to form a computer system. 

2. Computer Architecture refers to how a computer system is designed and how it works.

Correct Answer is  False

(A) Computare

Correct Answer is  False

Correct Answer is  Computare

The topic that Shri Siva Subrahmania Iyer discussed one day in the class was ‘how birds fly’.

Kalam was curious about planes. He wanted to be a pilot himself.

2. The photos of fighter air crafts and the stories of the Second World War caught my attention.

4. Siva Subrahmania Iyer took the whole class to the seashore. 

5. Kalam felt what he had learnt that day changed his life. 

1. Abdul Kalam decided to study aeronautical engineering. 

3. In 2002 he was elected the 11th President of India.

The following is the list of jobs opportunities suitable for a geographer as a career.

(i) National Atlas of Thematic Mapping Organisation of India. 

(ii) Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, Department of Urban Planning, Mumbai, as Urban Planner 

(iii) Assistant Professor in the subject of Geography For all above posts basic qualification is minimum M.A./M.Sc. in Geography.

At the time of the Second World War, all the resources were scarce and the prices were not affordable. So, Kalam took up the job as a newspaper boy.

B) Padma Shri

Inspirational women : Those who have a personality that influences others.

Correct option is c) 83.6

Best women empowerment slogans. 

1. Pink doesn’t mean weak. 

2. Make our voices heard. 

3. Our consent is important. 

4. We are more than someone’s something. 

5. Humans first. 

6. Education not discrimination.

1. Education plays a major role in getting rid of stereotypes.
2. Government provides many facilities for Girls Education.
3. Going to school become a fundamental right to children no matter boy or a girl.
4. Women of Andhra Pradesh started anti arrack movement.
5. On 8th March International Women’s Day is celebrated.

Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman to enter space.

C) Kalpana Chawia

Correct option: (a) development expenditure

No, there is no profession that only men can do.

Women can also achieve success in every profession.

No, women can do everything that men can.

If opportunity and support and equal treatment is given to women they can also achieve their goals.

Ex : Seema Rao is the country’s first won Commando trainer. She has trained over 15,000 soldiers in close-quarter battles.

No, there is no profession separate that only can women do. Men and women are equal in all professions.

Women have a high place in Indian Culture.

Kalpana Chawla an Indian – American astronaut.

A) Seema Rao

a) Janaki Ammal

Kadambari Ganguly and Chandramuki Basu.

A) Sydney peace prize

C) Nandini Harinath

Nandini Harinath is a rocket Scientist at ISRO.

Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology.

Vandana Shiva is an environmentalist and environmental rights activist.

1. The Indians settled in America and Canada established the Gadar Organisation.

2. The word Gadar means revolt. The objective of the organisation was to revolt against the British and free India from British rule. 

3. Lala Hardayal, Bhai Parmanand, Dr. Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje were the important revolutionaries of the organisation. 

4. Gadar’ Journal, the mouthpiece of the organisation voiced the evil effects of the British rule on India and published the news regarding the heroic deeds of the Indian revolutionaries. 

5. It conveyed the message of patriotism and armed rebellion to the Indian people. 

6. During the British rule, the Gadar Organisation decided to take advantage of the discontent against the British rule. 

7. It incited the Indian soldiers to revolt against the government. 

8. Rash Behari Bose and Vishnu Ganesh Pingle were entrusted the responsibility to lead the revolt.

9. However, the plan could not materialise due to treachery. 

10. Pingle was arrested and hanged. 

11. Rash Behari Bose managed to escape to Japan.

The Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha’ presented a declaration of peasants’ rights to the Indian National Congress.

The struggle against the British was fought in three ways. The difference in the way is as follows:

1. The moderates advocated peaceful and constitutional means. They believed in appeals and petitions. They tried to disrupt the working of the government from within. After their demands were met, they would put forth new demands. Thus, they believed in constitutional methods.

2. The approach of extremists was severe. They were of the opinion that if lakhs of people take part in the freedom movement and challenge the British government only then success could be achieved. 

3. Revolutionary wanted to fight the British in armed way. According to them, there should be armed struggle against the British. They adopted methods like killing the British officers, raiding the government treasury, disrupting transport and communication, etc. All the three ways are different but had one objective of achieving Independence for India.