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54 INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY Activity 10 Find out when women got voting rights in different countries. Why do you think that despite the right to vote and the right to stand for public office, women are so inadequately represented? Will power in its wider sense be a useful concept to understand this under-representation in the Parliament and other bodies? Does the existing division of labour within families and households impact women’s participation in political life? Find out why there is a demand for 33 per cent reservation for women in the Parliament. prerogative of every individual to enjoy community. Thus, individuals feel a a certain minimum standard of sense of pride and belonging, in being economic welfare and security. They ‘British’, ‘Indian’, ‘Indonesian’ or include such rights as health benefits, ‘French’. Probably people have always unemployment allowance, setting of felt some kind of identity with social minimum level of wages. The groups of one form or another — for broadening of social or welfare rights example, their family, clan or religious led to the welfare state, which was community.Nationalism,however,only established in Western societies since made its appearance with the the Second World War. States of the development of the modern state. erstwhile socialist countries had Contemporary world is marked both by far-reaching provision in this sector. In a rapid expansion of the global market most developing countries, this was as well as intense nationalist feelings virtually non-existent. All over the and conflicts. world today these social rights are Sociologists are interested in being attacked as liabilities on the state the broader study of power, not just and hindrances to economic growth. with the formal apparatus of Nationalism can be defined as a set government. They are interested in the of symbols and beliefs providing the distribution of power between parties, sense of being part of a single political between classes, between castes, and Activity 11 Activity 12 Collect information about different Collect information of events that states doing away with social show the growth of global inter- rights. Find out what explanation connectedness as well as instances is given for this. Discuss and of divisions along ethnic, religious, see whether you can see the national conflicts. Discuss how relationship between the economic, politics and economics may have a political and social spheres. part to play in them. Reprint 2026-27