‘All persons have equal rights to visit any shop in a marketplace.’ Do you think this is true of shops with expensive products? Explain with examples.
It is correct that all persons have equal rights to visit any shop in the market place. It's not true for shops with costlier products. For which following reasons are stated below: People with higher incomes can buy costlier products. Hence, these people go to the shops with luxury goods and not the people with lower income. The low-income people purchase goods from shops and weekly markets, as they are available at lower rates.Examples: People with high income purchases green vegetables from multiplexes while poor people purchase green vegetables from vegetable sellers.
Think of something common that we use. It could besugar, tea, milk, pen, paper, pencil, etc. Discuss through what chain of markets this reaches you. Can you think of the people that help in the production or trade?
Choose two of your favourite print advertisements. Now, look at each of these and answer the following questions:
a.What visuals and text are being used in these advertisements to attract my attention?
b.What values are being promoted in these advertisements?
c.Who is this advertisement speaking to and who is it leaving out? d.If you could not afford the brand that is being advertised, how would you feel?
Make a list of toys and games that boys typically play and another for girls. If there is a difference between the two lists, can you think of some reasons why this is so? Does this have any relationship to the roles children have to play as adults?
How did some MLAs become Ministers? Explain.
‘Buying and selling can take place without going to a marketplace.’ Explain this statement with the help of examples.
Why should decisions are taken by the Chief Minister and other ministers be debated in the Legislative Assembly?
What is the difference between the work that MLAs do in the Assembly and the work done by government departments?
You have read about the ways in which the media ‘sets the agenda’. What kind of effect does this have in a democracy? Provide two examples to support your point of view.
In what ways is a hawker different from a shop owner?
What made Swapna sell the cotton to the trader instead of selling at the Kurnool cotton market?
What do you understand by the term “all persons are equal before the law”? Why do you think it is important in a democracy?
Think of something common that we use. It could besugar, tea, milk, pen, paper, pencil, etc. Discuss through what chain of markets this reaches you. Can you think of the people that help in the production or trade?
What is the difference between the work that MLAs do in the Assembly and the work done by government departments?
What do you understand by the word brand? List two reasons why building brands is central to advertising?
What was the problem in Patalpuram? What discussion/actions were taken by the following? Pill in the table.
‘Improvement in water and sanitation can control many diseases’. Explain with the help of examples.
In what ways was Omprakash Valmikis experience similar to that of the Ansaris?
“Poor girls drop out of school because they are not interested in getting an education”. Re-read the last paragraph on page 62 and explain why this statement is not true.
Why should decisions are taken by the Chief Minister and other ministers be debated in the Legislative Assembly?
Housework is invisible and unpaid work. Housework is physically demanding.
Housework is time-consuming. Write in your own words what is meant by the terms ‘invisible’, ‘physically demanding’ and ‘time-consuming’? Give one example of
each based on the household tasks undertaken by women in your home.