cbseacademic.nic.in XII STD Sociology Sample Question Paper 2017-18 : CBSE Academic

Name of the Board : CBSE Academic
Class : XII STD
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Subject : Sociology
Year : 2017-18
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Sociology Sample Question Paper :

General Instructions :
1. There are 25 questions in all.
2. All questions are compulsory.

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3. Questions No. 1-14 are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.
4. Questions No. 15-21 are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 80 words.

5. Questions No. 22-25 are of long answer type questions carrying 6 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 200 words each. Question no. 25 is to be answered with the help of the passage given.

Questions :
1. “While knowing about its past in ancient and medieval times is very important, its colonial experience is particularly significant for comprehending modern India.” Justify.

2. “Social movements have shaped the world we live in and continue to do so.” Exemplify.
3. “States need the nation as much or even more than nations need states.” Justify. 2

4. Identify the reasons for the sex-ratio to be in favour of females. 2
5. Define electronic economy.
6. How is globalisation taking people in the direction of loneliness? 2

7. “Many of our cultural practices and patterns can be traced to our agrarian backgrounds.” How? 2
8. “Cities had a key role to play in the economic system of empires.” Discuss.

9. Compare the economic and sociological perspectives on markets. 2
10. How is the rural in Kerala a mixed economy? 2
11. Define Contract Farming. 2

12. What is Capitalism? 2
13. Explain the concept of ‘Imagined Community’. 2
14. In the context of cultural diversity, when does the feeling of alienation arise? 2

15. “The emergence of sociology and its successful establishment as an academic discipline owed a lot to demography.” How? 4
16. Comment, in the context of social movements, on how caste lost its ritual content and became more and more secularised for political mobilisation. 4

17. “ A nation is a peculiar sort of community that is easy to describe but hard to define.” Elucidate. 4
18. Why should students of Sociology study the phenomenal expansion of mass communication?
OR
What was the difference in the way mass-media was used in the 19th century by social reformers and by the British rule? 4

19. Identify and describe the political changes and developments that accompanied globalisation.
OR
Define and describe the difference between fordism and post-fordism. 4

20. Differentiate between indigenous capitalism and Marx’s idea of capitalism.
21. Evaluate the impact of the Bombay Mill Strike of 1982. 4

22. “Many tribal areas have had a rich tradition of grass root democratic functioning. However, these institutions weren’t necessarily democratic in their structure and functioning.” Comment.
OR
“Karachi Resolution reflects a vision of democracy.” Discuss. 6

23. “Is tribe part of the caste continuum”? Substantiate your answer with reasons. 6
24. “Sociologist Satish Saberwal elaborates upon the modern context by sketching three aspects to the modern framework of change in colonial India.” Which three aspects are being talked about? Describe any two of them. From Stree Purush Tulana 1882.

Marking Scheme :
1. While knowing about its past in ancient and medieval times is very important, its colonial experience is particularly significant for comprehending modern India. This is not just because many modern ideas and institutions reached India through colonialism.

It is also because such an exposure to modern ideas was contradictory or paradoxical. For example Indians in the colonial period read about western liberalism and freedom. 2

2. Social movements have shaped the world we live in and continue to do so. That the work-day should not exceed eight hours, that men and women should be paid equally for doing the same work, that workers are entitled to social security and pension – these and many other rights were gained through social movements. 2

3. States ‘need’ the nation as much or even more than nations need states. One of the characteristic features of the modern era is the establishment of democracy and nationalism as dominant sources of political legitimacy.

This means that, today, ‘the nation’ is the most accepted or proper justification for a state, while ‘the people’ are the ultimate source of legitimacy of the nation. 2

4. Historically, all over the world it has been found that there are slightly more females than males in most countries. This seems to be due to two reasons.

First, girl babies appear to have an advantage over boy babies in terms of resistance to disease in infancy. At the other end of the life cycle, women have tended to outlive men in most societies, so that there are older women than men. 2

5. Banks, corporations, fund managers and individual investors are able to shift funds internationally with the click of a mouse.

This new ability to move ‘electronic money’ is referred to as a consequence of electronic economy. This is possible because of the communication revolution.

6. In many industries, the workers are migrants. Young women are seen as submissive workers. Many men also migrate singly, either unmarried or leaving their families in the village.

These migrants have little time to socialise and whatever little time and money they can spend is with other migrant workers. From a nation of interfering joint families, the nature of work in a globalised economy is taking people in the direction of loneliness and vulnerability. 2