Question

Sometimes cities may also be preferred by people for social reasons. Which of the following is not a reason?

Options

• Cities offer relative anonymity.

• Urban life involves interaction with strangers.

• Continuous decline in common property resources like ponds, forests and grazing lands.

• The poorer sections of the socially dominant rural groups do not engage in low status work in cities.

Answer 1

Urban life involves interaction with strangers.

Explanation:

• It may seem paradoxical that interacting with strangers is a part of urban life given the variety of social contacts that cities provide.
• Options (A), (C), and (D) offer tenable explanations for why people might not socially favour cities, such as socioeconomic factors, anonymity, and the depletion of rural resources. As a result, (B) is inconsistent with the usual justifications for city preference.