Class 12 Sociology Question Paper Solved (2021) | Sociology for Class 12 - Grade 12 PDF Download

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General Instructions: 
1. The question paper is divided into three sections.  
2. There are 25 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.  
3. Section A includes question No. 1-14. They are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each.   
Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.  
4. Section B includes question No. 15-21. They are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer 
to each question should not exceed 80 words.  
5. Section C includes question No. 22-25. They are 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.  
 
1 Write a short note on Savitri Bai Phule. 2 
2 Define the term comodification. 2 
3 What does colonialism refer to? 
                  
                                OR 
 
Why where the coastal cities favoured by the British? 
 
2 
4 What do you mean by alienation of work? 2 
5 Define the term marketisation. 
                  
                      OR 
 
What is meant by liberalization? 
 
2 
6 Define the term Sanskritisation. 2 
7 Who is a Proprietary caste? 
              
                        OR 
 
What is meant by Land Ceiling Act? 
 
2 
Roll Number                          SET B 
 
 
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION  
 
 
SOCIOLOGY 
 
CLASS: XII Time Allotted: 3 Hrs 
 Max. Marks: 80 
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General Instructions: 
1. The question paper is divided into three sections.  
2. There are 25 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.  
3. Section A includes question No. 1-14. They are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each.   
Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.  
4. Section B includes question No. 15-21. They are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer 
to each question should not exceed 80 words.  
5. Section C includes question No. 22-25. They are 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.  
 
1 Write a short note on Savitri Bai Phule. 2 
2 Define the term comodification. 2 
3 What does colonialism refer to? 
                  
                                OR 
 
Why where the coastal cities favoured by the British? 
 
2 
4 What do you mean by alienation of work? 2 
5 Define the term marketisation. 
                  
                      OR 
 
What is meant by liberalization? 
 
2 
6 Define the term Sanskritisation. 2 
7 Who is a Proprietary caste? 
              
                        OR 
 
What is meant by Land Ceiling Act? 
 
2 
Roll Number                          SET B 
 
 
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION  
 
 
SOCIOLOGY 
 
CLASS: XII Time Allotted: 3 Hrs 
 Max. Marks: 80 
 
 
 
8 How do sociologists define a market? 2 
9 What do you understand by ‘Feminisation of agriculture’? 2 
10 Why was Dharma Sabha formed? 
               
                                   OR 
 
What does Kumud Pawade recounts in her autobiography? 
 
2 
11 Define Ryatwari system. 
             
                          OR 
 
Define the term Agrarian Structure. 
 
2 
12 Differentiate between law and justice. 2 
13 Explain Secularisation in Indian context. 2 
14 What is the difference between a strike and lockout? 2 
 SECTION - B  
15 What are the different forms a family can take? 4 
16 What do you understand by Corporate Culture? 4 
17 Why is it difficult to define a Nation? How are Nation & State related in modern society? 4 
18 The 73
rd
 and 74
th
 amendment has been monumental in bringing a voice to the people in the 
villages. Discuss. 
                          
                                            OR 
 
What are the duties of Nyaya Panchayats? 
 
4 
19 What are the features of a Social Movement? 
                          
                                          OR 
 
Discuss the Worker’s movements Briefly. 
 
4 
20 What is Regionalism? What factors is it usually based on? 4 
21 What is Industrialization? How did British Industrialization led to ‘Deindustrialization’ & 
‘Urbanization’ in India. 
                                                     
4 
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General Instructions: 
1. The question paper is divided into three sections.  
2. There are 25 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.  
3. Section A includes question No. 1-14. They are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each.   
Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.  
4. Section B includes question No. 15-21. They are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer 
to each question should not exceed 80 words.  
5. Section C includes question No. 22-25. They are 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.  
 
1 Write a short note on Savitri Bai Phule. 2 
2 Define the term comodification. 2 
3 What does colonialism refer to? 
                  
                                OR 
 
Why where the coastal cities favoured by the British? 
 
2 
4 What do you mean by alienation of work? 2 
5 Define the term marketisation. 
                  
                      OR 
 
What is meant by liberalization? 
 
2 
6 Define the term Sanskritisation. 2 
7 Who is a Proprietary caste? 
              
                        OR 
 
What is meant by Land Ceiling Act? 
 
2 
Roll Number                          SET B 
 
 
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION  
 
 
SOCIOLOGY 
 
CLASS: XII Time Allotted: 3 Hrs 
 Max. Marks: 80 
 
 
 
8 How do sociologists define a market? 2 
9 What do you understand by ‘Feminisation of agriculture’? 2 
10 Why was Dharma Sabha formed? 
               
                                   OR 
 
What does Kumud Pawade recounts in her autobiography? 
 
2 
11 Define Ryatwari system. 
             
                          OR 
 
Define the term Agrarian Structure. 
 
2 
12 Differentiate between law and justice. 2 
13 Explain Secularisation in Indian context. 2 
14 What is the difference between a strike and lockout? 2 
 SECTION - B  
15 What are the different forms a family can take? 4 
16 What do you understand by Corporate Culture? 4 
17 Why is it difficult to define a Nation? How are Nation & State related in modern society? 4 
18 The 73
rd
 and 74
th
 amendment has been monumental in bringing a voice to the people in the 
villages. Discuss. 
                          
                                            OR 
 
What are the duties of Nyaya Panchayats? 
 
4 
19 What are the features of a Social Movement? 
                          
                                          OR 
 
Discuss the Worker’s movements Briefly. 
 
4 
20 What is Regionalism? What factors is it usually based on? 4 
21 What is Industrialization? How did British Industrialization led to ‘Deindustrialization’ & 
‘Urbanization’ in India. 
                                                     
4 
 
 
 
                                                  OR 
‘Industrialization & Urbanization are linked processes’. Explain. 
 SECTION-C  
22 Define the term mass media communication. Discuss the beginning and growth of Modern mass 
media in India. 
OR 
 
What was the gravest challenge the media faced during emergency? Discuss the potential of FM 
stations have in post-liberalisation India? 
 
6 
23 What are the major issues taken up by Women’s Movement today? 
OR 
 
What is Discrimination? Write a note on Social inequality. 
 
6 
24 Discuss the concept of globalization. How does globalization affect culture? 
                          
OR 
 
Write a note on electronic economy. Explain briefly the weightless economy and knowledge 
economy. 
 
6 
25 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: 
66 % of India in 15-66 age group 
 
          Not only the bulk of India’s population , nearly two-thirds, is in the working age group from 
15-64 years, the median age of the country is still just 24 (even it’s up from 22 a decade ago) 
making it a rather young country with a large potentially productive workforce. On both counts, 
however, there are wide variations across states.  
 
           While India might have a whopping 767.5 million in the working age group, there 
proportion of working age population varies widely from a high of 74.3% in tiny Daman and Diu, 
to a low of 55% in Bihar where 40% of the population is in the 0-14 age group. It is the same in 
Utter Pradesh, another high fertility state, here the working age population constitutes just 58.6% 
while children constitute 36% of the population.  Or India, the proportion of children (0-14 years) 
in 31%. In low fertility states like Kerala and Tamilnadu, children constitute just 23% and 24% of 
the population. O the larger state, Tamilnadu has the highest proportion of population in the 
working age 69.8%. 
 
               In general, among the larger states the list of states with a high proportion of the 
population in the working ages bracket overlaps quiet a lot with the list of states generally 
considered among the more developed. 
This is good news to the extent that they are better placed to make “demographic dividend’ pay 
than others.                                                                       (Times of India, 8
th
 September 2013)  
a)  What is demographic dividend? 
b) Name the states with highest and lowest working age population. Also give the reasons of such 
variations found across states. 
6 
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General Instructions: 
1. The question paper is divided into three sections.  
2. There are 25 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.  
3. Section A includes question No. 1-14. They are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each.   
Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.  
4. Section B includes question No. 15-21. They are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer 
to each question should not exceed 80 words.  
5. Section C includes question No. 22-25. They are 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.  
 
1 Write a short note on Savitri Bai Phule. 2 
2 Define the term comodification. 2 
3 What does colonialism refer to? 
                  
                                OR 
 
Why where the coastal cities favoured by the British? 
 
2 
4 What do you mean by alienation of work? 2 
5 Define the term marketisation. 
                  
                      OR 
 
What is meant by liberalization? 
 
2 
6 Define the term Sanskritisation. 2 
7 Who is a Proprietary caste? 
              
                        OR 
 
What is meant by Land Ceiling Act? 
 
2 
Roll Number                          SET B 
 
 
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION  
 
 
SOCIOLOGY 
 
CLASS: XII Time Allotted: 3 Hrs 
 Max. Marks: 80 
 
 
 
8 How do sociologists define a market? 2 
9 What do you understand by ‘Feminisation of agriculture’? 2 
10 Why was Dharma Sabha formed? 
               
                                   OR 
 
What does Kumud Pawade recounts in her autobiography? 
 
2 
11 Define Ryatwari system. 
             
                          OR 
 
Define the term Agrarian Structure. 
 
2 
12 Differentiate between law and justice. 2 
13 Explain Secularisation in Indian context. 2 
14 What is the difference between a strike and lockout? 2 
 SECTION - B  
15 What are the different forms a family can take? 4 
16 What do you understand by Corporate Culture? 4 
17 Why is it difficult to define a Nation? How are Nation & State related in modern society? 4 
18 The 73
rd
 and 74
th
 amendment has been monumental in bringing a voice to the people in the 
villages. Discuss. 
                          
                                            OR 
 
What are the duties of Nyaya Panchayats? 
 
4 
19 What are the features of a Social Movement? 
                          
                                          OR 
 
Discuss the Worker’s movements Briefly. 
 
4 
20 What is Regionalism? What factors is it usually based on? 4 
21 What is Industrialization? How did British Industrialization led to ‘Deindustrialization’ & 
‘Urbanization’ in India. 
                                                     
4 
 
 
 
                                                  OR 
‘Industrialization & Urbanization are linked processes’. Explain. 
 SECTION-C  
22 Define the term mass media communication. Discuss the beginning and growth of Modern mass 
media in India. 
OR 
 
What was the gravest challenge the media faced during emergency? Discuss the potential of FM 
stations have in post-liberalisation India? 
 
6 
23 What are the major issues taken up by Women’s Movement today? 
OR 
 
What is Discrimination? Write a note on Social inequality. 
 
6 
24 Discuss the concept of globalization. How does globalization affect culture? 
                          
OR 
 
Write a note on electronic economy. Explain briefly the weightless economy and knowledge 
economy. 
 
6 
25 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: 
66 % of India in 15-66 age group 
 
          Not only the bulk of India’s population , nearly two-thirds, is in the working age group from 
15-64 years, the median age of the country is still just 24 (even it’s up from 22 a decade ago) 
making it a rather young country with a large potentially productive workforce. On both counts, 
however, there are wide variations across states.  
 
           While India might have a whopping 767.5 million in the working age group, there 
proportion of working age population varies widely from a high of 74.3% in tiny Daman and Diu, 
to a low of 55% in Bihar where 40% of the population is in the 0-14 age group. It is the same in 
Utter Pradesh, another high fertility state, here the working age population constitutes just 58.6% 
while children constitute 36% of the population.  Or India, the proportion of children (0-14 years) 
in 31%. In low fertility states like Kerala and Tamilnadu, children constitute just 23% and 24% of 
the population. O the larger state, Tamilnadu has the highest proportion of population in the 
working age 69.8%. 
 
               In general, among the larger states the list of states with a high proportion of the 
population in the working ages bracket overlaps quiet a lot with the list of states generally 
considered among the more developed. 
This is good news to the extent that they are better placed to make “demographic dividend’ pay 
than others.                                                                       (Times of India, 8
th
 September 2013)  
a)  What is demographic dividend? 
b) Name the states with highest and lowest working age population. Also give the reasons of such 
variations found across states. 
6 
 
 
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 
 CLASS XII 
Marking Scheme – SOCIOLOGY 
Q.NO. Answers Marks 
(with 
split up) 
1.  Savitri Bai Phule was the first headmistress of the country’s first school for 
girls in Pune. She devoted her life to educating Shudras and Ati-Shudras. She 
started a night school for agriculturists and labourers. She died while serving 
plague patients. 
2 
2.  Commodification occurs when thing that were earlier not treated in the market 
become commodities.  
 
2 
3.  Colonialism can be understood as the rule by one country over another. Eg. 
British colonized India. 
                                              OR 
Coastal cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai were favoured by British 
because from here primary commodities could be exported and manufactures 
goods could be cheaply exported. 
2 
4.  when people do not enjoy work, and see it as something they have to do only in 
order to survive, and even that survival depends on whether the technology has 
room for any human labour. 
2 
5.  Marketisation refers to the use of market based process to solve social, political 
or economic problems. These includes relaxation r removal of economic 
controls, privatization of industries and removing government controls over 
wages and prices. 
                                    OR 
The process whereby state controls over economic activity are relaxed and left 
to the market forces to decide. 
2 
6.  A process where members of middle/lower caste attempt to raise their own 
social statues by adopting the ritual, domestic & social practices of a Caste or 
Caste of higher status. 
 
2 
7.  A proprietary caste group is a group that owns most of the resources 
and can command labor to work for them. 
                           OR 
Ceiling Acts : Limits to be imposed on the ownership of land. Ceiling 
depended on the productivity of land i.e., High productivity land low ceiling, 
while low productivity land had higher ceiling. 
2 
8.  Sociologists consider markets as social institutions which are made in culturally 
specific ways.                             
2 
9.  Ferminization of agricultural labour means in poor areas (where male family 
members spend much of the year working outside of their villages) cultivation 
has become primarily a female task. Women are emerging as the main source of 
agricultural labour, leading to the feminization of agricultural labour forces. 
2 
SET B 
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General Instructions: 
1. The question paper is divided into three sections.  
2. There are 25 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.  
3. Section A includes question No. 1-14. They are very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each.   
Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.  
4. Section B includes question No. 15-21. They are short answer type questions carrying 4 marks each. Answer 
to each question should not exceed 80 words.  
5. Section C includes question No. 22-25. They are 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.  
 
1 Write a short note on Savitri Bai Phule. 2 
2 Define the term comodification. 2 
3 What does colonialism refer to? 
                  
                                OR 
 
Why where the coastal cities favoured by the British? 
 
2 
4 What do you mean by alienation of work? 2 
5 Define the term marketisation. 
                  
                      OR 
 
What is meant by liberalization? 
 
2 
6 Define the term Sanskritisation. 2 
7 Who is a Proprietary caste? 
              
                        OR 
 
What is meant by Land Ceiling Act? 
 
2 
Roll Number                          SET B 
 
 
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION  
 
 
SOCIOLOGY 
 
CLASS: XII Time Allotted: 3 Hrs 
 Max. Marks: 80 
 
 
 
8 How do sociologists define a market? 2 
9 What do you understand by ‘Feminisation of agriculture’? 2 
10 Why was Dharma Sabha formed? 
               
                                   OR 
 
What does Kumud Pawade recounts in her autobiography? 
 
2 
11 Define Ryatwari system. 
             
                          OR 
 
Define the term Agrarian Structure. 
 
2 
12 Differentiate between law and justice. 2 
13 Explain Secularisation in Indian context. 2 
14 What is the difference between a strike and lockout? 2 
 SECTION - B  
15 What are the different forms a family can take? 4 
16 What do you understand by Corporate Culture? 4 
17 Why is it difficult to define a Nation? How are Nation & State related in modern society? 4 
18 The 73
rd
 and 74
th
 amendment has been monumental in bringing a voice to the people in the 
villages. Discuss. 
                          
                                            OR 
 
What are the duties of Nyaya Panchayats? 
 
4 
19 What are the features of a Social Movement? 
                          
                                          OR 
 
Discuss the Worker’s movements Briefly. 
 
4 
20 What is Regionalism? What factors is it usually based on? 4 
21 What is Industrialization? How did British Industrialization led to ‘Deindustrialization’ & 
‘Urbanization’ in India. 
                                                     
4 
 
 
 
                                                  OR 
‘Industrialization & Urbanization are linked processes’. Explain. 
 SECTION-C  
22 Define the term mass media communication. Discuss the beginning and growth of Modern mass 
media in India. 
OR 
 
What was the gravest challenge the media faced during emergency? Discuss the potential of FM 
stations have in post-liberalisation India? 
 
6 
23 What are the major issues taken up by Women’s Movement today? 
OR 
 
What is Discrimination? Write a note on Social inequality. 
 
6 
24 Discuss the concept of globalization. How does globalization affect culture? 
                          
OR 
 
Write a note on electronic economy. Explain briefly the weightless economy and knowledge 
economy. 
 
6 
25 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: 
66 % of India in 15-66 age group 
 
          Not only the bulk of India’s population , nearly two-thirds, is in the working age group from 
15-64 years, the median age of the country is still just 24 (even it’s up from 22 a decade ago) 
making it a rather young country with a large potentially productive workforce. On both counts, 
however, there are wide variations across states.  
 
           While India might have a whopping 767.5 million in the working age group, there 
proportion of working age population varies widely from a high of 74.3% in tiny Daman and Diu, 
to a low of 55% in Bihar where 40% of the population is in the 0-14 age group. It is the same in 
Utter Pradesh, another high fertility state, here the working age population constitutes just 58.6% 
while children constitute 36% of the population.  Or India, the proportion of children (0-14 years) 
in 31%. In low fertility states like Kerala and Tamilnadu, children constitute just 23% and 24% of 
the population. O the larger state, Tamilnadu has the highest proportion of population in the 
working age 69.8%. 
 
               In general, among the larger states the list of states with a high proportion of the 
population in the working ages bracket overlaps quiet a lot with the list of states generally 
considered among the more developed. 
This is good news to the extent that they are better placed to make “demographic dividend’ pay 
than others.                                                                       (Times of India, 8
th
 September 2013)  
a)  What is demographic dividend? 
b) Name the states with highest and lowest working age population. Also give the reasons of such 
variations found across states. 
6 
 
 
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 
 CLASS XII 
Marking Scheme – SOCIOLOGY 
Q.NO. Answers Marks 
(with 
split up) 
1.  Savitri Bai Phule was the first headmistress of the country’s first school for 
girls in Pune. She devoted her life to educating Shudras and Ati-Shudras. She 
started a night school for agriculturists and labourers. She died while serving 
plague patients. 
2 
2.  Commodification occurs when thing that were earlier not treated in the market 
become commodities.  
 
2 
3.  Colonialism can be understood as the rule by one country over another. Eg. 
British colonized India. 
                                              OR 
Coastal cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai were favoured by British 
because from here primary commodities could be exported and manufactures 
goods could be cheaply exported. 
2 
4.  when people do not enjoy work, and see it as something they have to do only in 
order to survive, and even that survival depends on whether the technology has 
room for any human labour. 
2 
5.  Marketisation refers to the use of market based process to solve social, political 
or economic problems. These includes relaxation r removal of economic 
controls, privatization of industries and removing government controls over 
wages and prices. 
                                    OR 
The process whereby state controls over economic activity are relaxed and left 
to the market forces to decide. 
2 
6.  A process where members of middle/lower caste attempt to raise their own 
social statues by adopting the ritual, domestic & social practices of a Caste or 
Caste of higher status. 
 
2 
7.  A proprietary caste group is a group that owns most of the resources 
and can command labor to work for them. 
                           OR 
Ceiling Acts : Limits to be imposed on the ownership of land. Ceiling 
depended on the productivity of land i.e., High productivity land low ceiling, 
while low productivity land had higher ceiling. 
2 
8.  Sociologists consider markets as social institutions which are made in culturally 
specific ways.                             
2 
9.  Ferminization of agricultural labour means in poor areas (where male family 
members spend much of the year working outside of their villages) cultivation 
has become primarily a female task. Women are emerging as the main source of 
agricultural labour, leading to the feminization of agricultural labour forces. 
2 
SET B 
 
 
10.  Dharma Sabha was formed by the higher caste people to fight against the 
Brahmo Samaj and Sati. Dharma Sabha petitioned the British not to legislate 
against sati. 
                                         OR 
Kumud Pawade in her autobiography recounts how a Dalit woman became a 
Sanskrit teacher. As a student she is drawn towards the study of Sanskrit, 
perhaps because it is the means through which she can break into a field that 
was not possible for her to enter on grounds of gender and caste. 
2 
11.  In other areas that were under direct British rule had what was called the 
raiyatwari system of land settlement (raiyat means cultivator in Telugu). In this 
system, the ‘actual cultivators’ (who were themselves often landlords and not 
cultivators) rather than the zamindars were responsible for paying the tax. 
                                                OR 
The term agrarian structure is often used to refer to the structure or distribution 
of landholdings. 
 
2 
12.  Law: Law carries the means to force obedience, has the power of state 
behind it. The essence of law is force and coerction. 
Justice: Justice : essence of justice is fairness. It functions through the 
hierarchy of authorities and follow the basic procedured as prescribes in the 
constitution. A hierarchy of courts interpret the laws. 
2 
13.  Indian point of view secularism refers to ranking of equal status to all religion. 2 
14.  In a strike, workers do not go to work. To call a strike is a difficult decision as 
managers may try to use substitute labour. 
In a lock-out the management shuts the gate and prevents workers from 
coming. 
2 
15.   With regard to the rule of residence, some societies are matrilocal in their 
marriage and family customs while others are patrilocal. In the first case, the 
newly married couple stays with the woman’s parents, whereas in the second 
case the couple lives with the man’s parents. With regard to the rules of 
inheritance, matrilineal societies pass on property from mother to daughter 
while patrilineal societies do so from father to son. A patriarchal family 
structure exists where the men exercise authority and dominance, and 
matriarchy where the women play a similarly dominant role. However, 
matriarchy – unlike patriarchy – has been a theoretical rather than an empirical 
concept. There is no historical or anthropological evidence of matriarchy – i.e., 
societies where women exercise dominance. However, there do exist 
matrilineal societies, i.e., societies where women inherit property from their 
mothers but do not exercise control over it, nor are they the decision makers in 
public affairs. 
4 
16.  (i) Branch of management theory that seeks to increase 
productivity & competitiveness. 
(ii) It involves all members of a firm. 
(iii) Enhancement of employee Solidarity and loyalty through 
event, rituals, tradition etc. 
(iv) Way of promoting & packaging of products. 
4 
17.  -A nation is a sort of large-scale community – it is a community of 
communities. Members of a nation share the desire to be part of the same 
4