Class 7 Social Science - Social and Political Life (Civics) - Chapter Markets Around Us NCERT Solutions | ‘Buying and selling can take place

In what ways is a hawker different from a shop owner?

Compare and contrast a weekly market and a shopping complex on the following:

Explain how a chain of markets is formed. What purpose does it serve?

‘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.

What made Swapna sell the cotton to the trader instead of selling at the Kurnool cotton market?

In this chapter you have read that health is a wider concept than illness. Look at this quote from the Constitution and explain the terms ‘living standard’ and ‘public health’ in your own words. An important part of the Constitution says it is the “duty of the state to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living and to improve public health. ”

Use the terms ‘constituency’ and ‘represent’ to explain who an MLA is and how is the person elected?

Are the statements given below true or false? Support your answer with the use of an example :
(a) All societies do not think similarly about the roles that boys and girls play.
(b) Our society does not make distinctions between boys and girls when they are growing up.
(c) Women who stay at home do not work.
(d) The work that women do is less valued than that of men.

How do you think stereotypes about what women can or cannot do, affect women’s right to equality?

In what ways does media play an important role in a democracy?

What do you understand by the word brand? List two reasons why building brands is central to advertising?

Describe the conditions of employment as well as the wages of workers in the garment exporting factory. Do you think the workers get a fair deal?

Re-read the box on Article 15 and state two ways in which this Article addresses inequality?

What are the different ways through which the government can take steps to provide healthcare for all? Discuss.

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?

Can you explain two ways in which you think advertising affects issues of equality in a democracy?

The Government of India passed the Disabilities Act in 1995. This law states that persons with disabilities have equal rights, and that the government should make possible their full participation in society. The government has to provide free education and integrate children with disabilities into mainstream schools. This law also states that all public places including buildings, school etc., should
be accessible and provided with ramps. Look at the photograph and think about the boy who is being carried down the stairs. Do you think the above law is being implemented in his case? What needs to be done to make the building and accessible for him? How would his being carried down the stairs affect his dignity as well as his safety?

Are the statements given below true or false? Support your answer with the use of an example :
(a) All societies do not think similarly about the roles that boys and girls play.
(b) Our society does not make distinctions between boys and girls when they are growing up.
(c) Women who stay at home do not work.
(d) The work that women do is less valued than that of men.

What was the problem in Patalpuram? What discussion/actions were taken by the following? Pill in the table.

Arrange the statements given alongside in the correct order and then fill in the numbers in the cotton bolls accordingly. The first two have already been done for you.

‘Improvement in water and sanitation can control many diseases’. Explain with the help of examples.

How did some MLAs become Ministers? Explain.

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?