Module: General Practice
Q44: Consider the following statements regarding the impact of urban family structures on the mother's character:
1. The story accurately reflects the mid-20th-century sociological shift from communal, rural joint-family structures to highly individualized urban nuclear families in India.
2. Within this newly adopted urban structure, elderly dependent parents were universally granted elevated status and absolute authority over their highly educated children.
3. The physical architecture of the modern apartment exacerbates the mother's alienation, as there are no traditional communal spaces for her to occupy comfortably.
Which of the statements given above is/are INCORRECT?
2. Within this newly adopted urban structure, elderly dependent parents were universally granted elevated status and absolute authority over their highly educated children.
3. The physical architecture of the modern apartment exacerbates the mother's alienation, as there are no traditional communal spaces for her to occupy comfortably.
Which of the statements given above is/are INCORRECT?
✅ Correct Answer: B
Statement 2 is the only incorrect statement.
This question addresses the sociological breakdown of the traditional Indian family.
Structurally, the text illustrates the harsh transition from the village joint family to the city apartment (Statement 1). The modern apartment, with its strict division of drawing rooms and private bedrooms, leaves no natural space for the mother, forcing her onto the verandah like an unwanted object (Statement 3). Historically, urbanization and the rise of the nuclear family severely diminished the power and status of the elderly.
Rather than gaining elevated status, elderly dependents (especially widows) were often reduced to burdensome liabilities in households driven by Westernized corporate ambition.
Therefore, Statement 2 is entirely false.
The causal link shows that as Shamnath embraced modern corporate individualism, he naturally discarded the traditional Indian ethos of elder veneration.
This question addresses the sociological breakdown of the traditional Indian family.
Structurally, the text illustrates the harsh transition from the village joint family to the city apartment (Statement 1). The modern apartment, with its strict division of drawing rooms and private bedrooms, leaves no natural space for the mother, forcing her onto the verandah like an unwanted object (Statement 3). Historically, urbanization and the rise of the nuclear family severely diminished the power and status of the elderly.
Rather than gaining elevated status, elderly dependents (especially widows) were often reduced to burdensome liabilities in households driven by Westernized corporate ambition.
Therefore, Statement 2 is entirely false.
The causal link shows that as Shamnath embraced modern corporate individualism, he naturally discarded the traditional Indian ethos of elder veneration.