CBSE Board Class 12 Sociology Previous Year Question Papers 2010

Sample Paper – 2010
Class – XII
Subject – Sociology
     

General Instructions:
1. Questions 1 to 15 are of 2 marks each and they are to be answered in about 30 words
2. Questions 16 to 25 are of 4 marks each and they are to answered in about 80 words.
3. Questions 26 to 30 are of 6 marks each and they are to be answered in about 200 words.

Time : 3 Hrs               Max Marks: 100

I. Complete the following statements:

1. Demographic dividend refers to ……………………

2. Dominant caste is a term used to refer ……………..

3. Social exclusion refers to ………………….

4. The two basic features of capitalism are ……………………

5. Industrialisation and urbanization are linked  process because ……………

6. M.S.A. Rao describes different situations of urban impact, they are ………………

7. Westernisation refers to ………………..

8. Contract farming system refers to ………………………

9. Land ceiling Act refers to …………………..

10. Taylorism (or) Industrial Engineering refers to …………….

11. The mines act of 1952 specifies ……………

12. Time slavery in the IT sector refers to ………………

13. Harry Braverman argues that machinery deskills workers because …………….

14. Corporate culture refers to …………….

15. The term infotainment refers to ………………….

II. Answer the following questions:

16. How is caste system undergoing changes at present? Explain any four changes.

17. Explain caste based market and trading networks functioning in Pre colonial and colonial
  India? Explain any four points.

18. Explain any four positive changes introduced in Indian market system after globalization.

19. What is communalism? Why is communalism an important issue in India? Give three reasons.

20. Explain any four importance of Community Identity.

21. What are the basic objectives laid down in the constitution to bring Social Change and
  Social Justice? Explain any four of them.

22. Explain the Social welfare responsibility of Panchayats in India. (Any four).

23. Explain any four transformations in the nature of social relations in rural society.

24. Explain any four different economic dimensions of globalization.

25. Explain the four factors which helped for expansion of mass communication in modern India.

III. Answer the following questions:

26. Explain the Malthusian theory of population growth. How was his theory challenged by the
  Marxists?

27. What were six major issues taken up by women’s movement for equality and rights?
  Explain them.

28. What is Sanskritisation? How is Sanskritisation critiqued at different levels?
  (any five points).

29. Explain globalization of culture under (each two points)
  (a)  Homogenisation (b)   Gender    (c)    Consumption

30. Explain the growth of Television in India after the globalization in six points.