Class XI - Sociology Practice Paper - 1

Subject: Sociology

Class XI – Mid-Term Practice Paper

Time Allowed: 3 hours

Max. Marks: 80

General Instructions:

1. The question paper is divided into four sections.

2. There are 35 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.

3. Section A includes question No. 1-16. They are objective type questions.

4. Section B includes question No. 17-25. They are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each. Answer each question in maximum 30 words.

5. Section C includes question No. 26 – 32. They are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer each question in maximum 80 words. Question numbers 26 – 27 are case based questions carrying 4 parts of 1 mark each, making a total of 4 marks.

6. Section D includes question No. 33 – 35. They are long answer type questions carrying 6 marks each. Answer each question in maximum 200 words. Question no. 35 is to answered with the help of given passage.

SECTION – A

Fill in the blanks

1. ______________________an European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries, emphasised reason and individualism.

(a) Rise of India

(b) The Enlightenment

(d) Rise of Europe

2. The French scholar______________ (1789–1857), considered to be the founder of sociology, believed that sociology would contribute to the welfare of humanity.

(a) Emile Durkheim

(b) Max Weber

(d) Auguste Comte

3. Which of the following is not a defining feature of human life ____________________________________

(a) humans interact

(b) communicate

(d) humans do not interact

4A_________________are simply collections of people who are in the same place at the same time, but share no definite connection with one another.

(a) Aggregates

(b) primary group

(d) In-Groups

4B. A _______________is an aggregate or combination, which lacks structure or organisation, and whose members may be unaware, or less aware, of the existence of groupings.

(a) primary group

(b) secondary group

(d) quasi group

State whether the given statement is true or false

5. Primary group is used to refer to a small group of people connected by intimate and face-to-face association and co-operation.

6. For any group of people there are always other groups whom they look up to and aspire to be like. The groups whose lifestyles are emulated are known as Reference groups.

7. Social institutions could be ‘macro’ like the state or ‘micro’ ones like the family.

8. An institution cannot be viewed as an end in itself.

9. Institutions such as family and religion are examples of informal social institutions.

10. The extended family is seen as the unit best equipped to handle the demands of industrial society by the functionalists.

Correct the given statement

11A. Every social organisation does not develops a culture of its own.

11B. Malinowski suggested that we look at human actions in the same way as we look at words in a book.

12. Literate refers to understanding, how we make sense of all the information coming to us from our environment.

13. In non-literate societies legend or lore remain in written form

14. While norms are explicit rules, laws are implicit rules.

15. A law is a informal sanction defined by government as a rule or principle that its citizens must follow

16. Centrism is the application of one’s own cultural values in evaluating the behaviour and beliefs of people from other cultures.

SECTION B

17A. Give reasons for the ruin of Indian handicraftsmen.

Explain the difference between macro and micro sociology.

18. Distinguish between social group and Quasi group

19A. What do you understand by deviance?

19B. What do you understand by Role stereotyping?

20. How gendered is the family?

21A. State the types of family on the basis of residence.

21B. State two characteristics of the economy of modern societies.

22. How to get identity?

23. What are the characteristics of a modern society?

24. How has mass media become an important part of our lives?

25. Differentiate between Law and Pattern.

SECTION C

26A. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions as directed –

Sociology attempts to understand behaviour as it is organised in society, that is the way in which personality is shaped by different aspects of society. For instance, economic and political system, their family and kinship structure, their culture, norms and values. It is interesting to recall that Durkheim who sought to establish a clear scope and method for sociology in his well-known study of suicide left out individual intentions of those who commit or try to commit suicide in favour of statistics concerning various social characteristics of these individuals.

Choose the correct option –

1 Sociology attempts to understand ___________________ in society.

(a) Unorganized behavior

(b) Organized behavior

(d) Trouble

2 _____________ sought to establish a clear scope and method for sociology in his well-known study of suicide.

(a) Max Weber

(b) Srinivas

(d) Durkheim

3 The family is a _______ institution.

(a) Political

(b) Economic

(d) Mental

4 Well – known means –

(a) beautiful

(b) very famous

(d) less

26B. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions as directed –

Observations of philosophical and religious thinkers are often about what is moral or immoral in human behaviour, about the desirable way of living and about a good society. Sociology too concerns itself with norms and values. But its focus is not on norms and values as they ought to be, as goals that people should pursue. Its concern is with the way they function in actual societies. Empirical study of societies is an important part of what sociologists do. This however does not mean that sociology is not concerned with values. It only means that when a sociologist studies a society, the sociologist is willing to observe and collect findings, even if they are not to her/his personal liking.

Choose the correct option –

1 Observations of philosophical and religious thinkers are often about what is moral or immoral in _____________________, about the desirable way of living and about a good society.

(a) Social behaviour

(b) Human behaviour

(d) Political behaviour

2 ______________ study of societies is an important part of what sociologists do.

(a) Empirical

(b) Natural

(d) Political

3 Which of the following conduct is moral –

(a) Taking information about anyone without being told

(b) Taking someone’s belongings without being told

(d) Do so by telling the person about whom we want to collect information

4 When a sociologist studies a society, the sociologist is willing to __________and collect findings, even if they are not to her/his personal liking.

(a) Think

(b) Data

(d) Observe

27A. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions as directed –

Historically four basic systems of stratification have existed in human societies: slavery, caste, estate and class. Slavery is an extreme form of inequality in which some individuals are literally owned by others. It has existed sporadically at many times and places, but there are two major examples of a system of slavery; ancient Greece and Rome and the Southern States of the USA in the 18th and 19th centuries. As a formal institution, slavery has gradually been eradicated. But we do continue to have bonded labour, often even of children. Estates characterised feudal Europe.

Choose the correct option

1 Historically how many basic systems of stratification have existed in human societies ?

(a) one

(b) two

(d) four

2 ______________ system is an extreme form of inequality.

(a) Caste

(b) Slavery

(d) Class

3 A person who does labour or renders services for the lender in return for the payment of a loan taken-

(a) Labour

(b) Agricultural labour

(d) Bonded labour

4 As a _____________ institution, slavery has gradually been eradicated.

(a) ordinary

(b) formal

(d) big

27B. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions as directed –

In traditional India different castes formed a hierarchy of social precedence. Each position in the caste structure was defined in terms of its purity or pollution relative to others. The underlying belief was that those who are most pure, the Brahmin priestly castes, are superior to all others and the Panchamas, sometimes called the ‘outcastes’ are inferior to all other castes. The traditional system is generally conceptualised in terms of the four fold varna of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. In reality there are innumerable occupation-based caste groups, called jatis.

Choose the correct option –

1 In traditional India different castes formed a _____________ of social precedence.

(a) order

(b) place

(d) place

2 Each position in the _________________ structure was defined in terms of its purity or pollution relative to others.

(a) caste

(b) class

(d) small

3 Literal meaning of Varna is ____________.

(a) object

(b) open

(d) sad

4 Who was called ‘outcastes’?

(a) Brahmin

(b) Kshatriya

(d) Pancham

28A. Differentiate between In-Groups and Out-Groups.

Differentiate between Caste and Class

29. What do you understand by Marriage? Does marriage promise a happy family? Comment on this.

30. What kind of role does kinship play in our lives?

31. What do you understand by non-material culture?

32. How does culture affect life?

SECTION D

33A. Discuss such intellectual ideas which played a role in the making of sociology.

State the relationship between sociology and political science.

34. What do you understand by social control? What is the need of social control?

35. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions –

Political institutions are concerned with the distribution of power in society. Two concepts, which are critical to the understanding of political institutions, are power and authority. Power is the ability of individuals or groups to carry out their will even when opposed by others. It implies that those who hold power do so at the cost of others. There is a fixed amount of power in a society and if some wield power others do not. In other words, an individual or group does not hold power in isolation, they hold it in relation to others.

This notion of power is fairly inclusive and extends from family elders assigning domestic duties to their children to principals enforcing discipline in school; from the General Manager of a factory distributing work among the executives to political leaders regulating programmes of their parties. The principal has power to maintain discipline in school. The president of a political party possesses power to expel a member from the party. In each case, an individual or group has power to the extent to which others abide by their will. In this sense, political activities or politics is concerned with ‘power’

1 What do you understand by power?

2 How do you see the power being used around you?

Class XI – Sociology Practice Paper – 1