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Challenges to Democracy - Important Terms And Concepts

  CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY     IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS  
  • Challenges: Difficulties which are significant and which can be overcome are known as Challenges.
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  • Political Reforms: Suggestions or proposals about overcoming various challenges to democracy are called "Democratic Reforms" or "Political Reforms".
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  • Legal Constitutional Changes: Legal ways of reforming politics and to think of new laws to ban undesirable things are known as the legal constitutional changes.
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  • Right to Information Act: It is an act that empowers the people to find out what is happening in government and acts as watchdogs of democracy.
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  • Bureaucracy: It refers to the rule by the office or rule by the officials. The term denotes the organisations, officials and more...
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    Challenges to Democracy - Chapter Coverage

      CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY         CHAPTER COVERAGE        
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    Development - Important Terms And Concepts

      Development     IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS  
  • Traditional Notion of Development. Different persons depending on their present status and situation have different views/expectations (and sometimes conflicting also) about development. Different notions will prevail if people come from different background like rich family or poor family; rural or urban; urban employed or a farmer. But one thing is common in traditional notion and that is rise in monetary income and thereby own more goods and services than before. But now, notion of development has undergone a drastic change. Money is the only factor necessary for development.
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  • National Income. Total value of all goods and services produced within a country plus income coming from abroad.
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  • Per more...
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    Development - Chapter Coverage

      Development       CHAPTER COVERAGE
    • Traditional Notion of Development
    • Income and other Goals             
    • National Income and Per-Capita Income
    • Comparison between Countries or States
    • Sustainable Economic Development
    • Human Development
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    Sectors of the Indian Economy - Important Terms And Concepts

      Sectors of the Indian Economy   Important Terms and Concepts  
  • Classification of sectors of the Indian economy.
    • (i) On the basis of nature of activities
    (a) Primary sector
    (b) Secondary sector
    (c) Tertiary sector
    (ii) On the basis of ownership
    (a) Private sector
    (b) Public sector
     
  • Primary Sector (or Agriculture and related sectors). It includes all those economic activities which are connected with extraction and production of natural resources, g., agriculture, fishing, mining, etc.
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  • Secondary Sector (or Industrial sector). It includes all activities which are concerned with the more...
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    Sectors of the Indian Economy - Chapter Coverage

      Sectors of the Indian Economy     Chapter Coverage  
    • Economic and Non-Economic Activities
     
    • Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sectors in India
     
    • Division of Sectors as Organised and Unorganised
     
    • Public and Private Sectors
     
    • Calculation of GDP
     
    • Importance of Service Sector
     
    • Different Types of Unemployment
     
    • NREGA, 2005
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    Federalism - Chapter Coverage

      Federalism       CHAPTER COVERAGE                                             
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    Democracy and Diversity - Important Terms And Concepts

      Democracy and Diversity Important Terms And Concepts
  • Social Division: Division of the society on the basis of language, region, caste, colour or race and sex. It signifies linguistic and regional diversity.
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  • Social Differences: Social differences are the situations where people are discriminated against on the basis of social, economic and racial inequality. It gives way to social diversity which is different from society to society.
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  • Civil Rights Movement in the USA : A series of events and reform movements with the aim of abolishing legal, racial discrimination against African-Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. started the movement in 1954. It was based on the non-violent methods of civil disobedience against racially discriminatory laws and practices.
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  • African-American: Afro-Amrican, Black American or Black are the terms more...
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    Democracy and Diversity - Chapter Coverage

      Democracy and Diversity  
    In 2005, the San Jose State University installed a 20-foot high sculpture representing the protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos. A photograph of the original medal ceremony in 1968 is on the top.
       Chapter Coverage  
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    Gender Religion and Caste - Important Terms And Concepts

      Gender, Religion and Caste   Important Terms And Concepts  
  • Gender Division: It is a form of hierarchical social division based on social expectations and stereotypes.
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  • Sexual Division of Labour: A system in which all work inside the home is either done by the women of the family, or organised by them through the domestic helpers.
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  • Feminist: A woman or a man who believes in equal rights and opportunities for men and women.
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  • Patriarchy: It is a concept which is used to refer to a system that values men more and gives them power over women. The society based on this ideology is known as the Patriarchal Society.
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  • Child Sex Ratio: It is referred to as the number of girl children per more...
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