Subject: Sociology
Class XII
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Max. Marks: 80
General Instructions:
- The question paper is divided into four sections.
- There are 38 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
- Section A includes question No 1-20. These are MCQ type questions. As per the question, there can be one answer.
- Section B includes question No 21-29. These are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.
- Section C includes question No 30-35. They are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 80 words.
- Section D includes question No 36-38. They are long answer type questions carrying 6 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 200 words each. Question no 36 is to be answered with the help of the passage given.
SECTION A
1. Which of the following is a reason for the decline in the child sex ratio
(a) Severe neglect of boy babies in infancy
(b) Good care of girl babies in infancy
(c) Sex specific abortions and female foeticide
(d) High death rate of boys.
2. Assertion (A): According to Malthusian theory humanity is condemned to live poverty.
Reason (R): The growth of agricultural production will always ahead of population growth.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false and R is true
3. Which of the following is correct about Khasi Tribe?
(a) This tribe is strictly patriarchal and patrilineal
(b) This tribe follow matrilineal and women headed family system.
(c) This tribe is matrilineal but not matriarchal
(d) This tribe is matrilineal and matriarchal
4. Assertion (A): Under the process of Sanskritisation the pattern for emulation chosen most often were the Brahmin of Kshatriya caste.
Reason (R): Lower and Middle castes raise their own social status by adopting the ritual and other social practices of higher castes.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false and R is true
5. Which of the following is correct about ‘Varna’?
I. Is an all India classification
II. Determined by birth
III. Number if fixed
(a) I and II
(b) I and III
(c) II and III
(d) I, II and III
6. Tribes in India have generally been defined in terms of what they were not, which of the following is not part of that?
(a) Did not practice religion with a written text
(b) Did not have a state or political form.
(c) Did not have caste system
(d) Did not have family system.
7. About what the book named ’Stree-Purush Tulna’ discuss?
(a) About work place of men and women
(b) About education of men and women
(c) About sports played by men and women
(d) About double standards of society about male and female
8. Which of the following is true for Community identity?
I. Community identity is based
II. Community identity is very strong
III. They are universal
(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) I, II and III
9. According to ___________, a state is a “body that successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a particular territory.”
(a) Radcliff Brown
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Max Weber
(d) Emile Durkheim
10. With whose effort from the following, Dalit’s got the freedom to walk on public roads, and Dalit children were allowed to join schools.
(a) M.N. Srinivas
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Ayyankali
(d) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
11. British Industrialization had a reverse effect in some areas of India. Some of the old traditional Urban Centers of India also declined.
Which of the following was this process?
(a) Manchester Competition
(b) Deindustrialization
(c) England Competition
(d) None of the above
12. ‘When I feel listening to a Meera-Bhajan, Kallos and kingkini choose to play their favourite pop numbers by Whitney Houston. At times when I feel like singing a few lines of Bargeet, Kinkin likes to play western tunes on her guitar.’
In the above context this generational difference relates to which of the process?
(a) Modernisation
(b) Weternisation
(c) Sanskritisation
(d) All of the above
13. Which of the following is not true about Zamindari system.
(a) Under the British, the Zamindars were given more control over land than they had before.
(b) Both Zamindari and Raiyatwari system are same system
(c) Zamindar collects tax in the form of a portion of the produce from cultivators.
(d) Zamindari system was exploitative for cultivators.
14. Many of the working poor were tied to landowners in hereditary labour relations (bonded labour). By which name this system is known in Gujarat?
(a) Zamindari
(b) Raiyatwari
(c) Jeeta
(d) Halpati
15. Assertion (A): In most regions of India, women are usually excluded from ownership of land.
Reason (R): Prevailing patrilineal kinship system and mode of inheritance limit’s women’s rights.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false and R is true
16. Which of the following is true about the transformation in the nature of social relations in rural areas took place in the post-Independence period.
(a) Rise of class of ‘bounded’ labourers.
(b) An increase in the use of agricultural labour as cultivation became more intensive.
(c) Strengthening of hereditary relationships between landowners and agricultural workers
(d) Continuity of delivery of goods in payment.
17. Which of the following are features of Industrial Society?
I. Urbanisation
II. Working with landlords known by people.
III. Detailed division of labour.
(a) I and II
(b) I and III
(c) II and III
(d) I, II and III
18. Assertion (A): Small companies keep wages high for its workers.
Reason (R): Small companies have to compete for orders from the big companies.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false and R is true
19. Which of the following is true about Taylorism?
(a) All work was broken down into smallest repetitive elements in this system.
(b) The whole work was done by one worker in this system.
(c) No time limit was given to worker only in this system.
(d) The speed of work was not adjusted with speed of the conveyor belt.
20. Assertion (A): The firm has outsourced all services like cleaning, and security as well as the manufacture of parts.
Reason (R): Outsourcing keeps costs high for the company.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false and R is true
SECTION – B
21. Define Demographic Dividend.
22. On which combination of two sets of principal caste system theoretically be understood?
23. What are the steps that government should take to facilitate differently abled persons?
OR
How social inequality and exclusion are social?
24. There is a huge disparity among minorities for example some are well off, some from lower economic background, still they are all vulnerable. Why?
OR
What are the two provisions of the Indian Constitutions relating to minorities?
25. What do you mean by Communalism?
26. How did colonialism lead to considerable movement of people from one place to another?
27. What is the impact of urbanization on Indian Villages?
28. Discuss two criticism of Sanskritisation.
29. What do you mean by alienation.
OR
What are the tasks of manager?
SECTION – C
30. Caste has tended to become invisible for which social group in independent India and how? Explain.
OR
What is the debate on the subject of isolation and integration in the context of tribes?
31. What is regionalism? What are the factors of promoting regionalism in India?
32. Highlighted the relationship of urbanization and industrialization.
33. Discuss the impacts of ‘Contract Farming’?
34. Discuss the impact of liberalization on the field of employment.
OR
How do people find job in Industries?
35. Ecological issues also raises economic and political issues. Discuss it with the help of an ecological movement.
SECTION – D
36. “There has not been a single, Unified Dalit movement in the country now or in the past. Different movements have highlighted different issues related to Dalit’s around different ideologies. However, all of them assert a Dalit identity the meaning may not be identical or precise for everyone. Notwithstanding differences in the nature of Dalit movements and the meaning of identity there has been a common quest for equality, self-dignity and eradication of untouchability?”
What is the special character of the social movements of Dalit’s? What similarities do you find in these movements?
37. Discuss in detail about demographic transition theory.
38. Define tribes. Critically analyse the national development versus tribal development.
OR
Discuss the features of social movements.