MBOSE Class 12 Question Paper 2025 for Sociology

Meghalaya Board of School Education

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Total No. of Printed Pages—7
HS/XII/A/Sg/25

2025

SOCIOLOGY

Full Marks : 80

Time : 3 hours

The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions

General Instructions :

(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script.
(ii) Attempt Part—A (Objective Questions) serially.
(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place.

( PART : A—OBJECTIVE )
( Marks : 56 )

SECTION—I
( Very short answer-type questions )

( Marks : 28 )

Answer the following questions in not more than 5 sentences
each (any fourteen) : 2×14=28

1. What are positive checks?

2. What is sex ratio?

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3. What is the concept of ‘purity and pollution’?

4. Who are the Scheduled Castes?

5. Define endogamy.

6. What do you mean by ‘absentee landlords’?

7. What is Jati?

8. What is an extended family?

9. What is commodification?

10. What is social exclusion?

11. What is social stratification?

12. What is untouchability?

13. Who established the Brahmo Samaj?

14. Define communalism.

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15. What do you mean by discrimination?

16. Define reservation.

17. What is capitalism?

18. What do you mean by modernization?

19. Define social movement.

SECTION—II
( Short answer-type questions )

( Marks : 28 )

Answer the following questions in not more than 8 sentences
each : 4×7=28

20. (a) What is the theory of demographic transition?

Or

(b) What are the common features of ‘disability’?

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21. (a) Who are tribes?

Or

(b) Define Other Backward Classes.

22. (a) Write on the peasant movement.

Or

(b) Write on the women’s movement.

23. (a) What is an agrarian society?

Or

(b) Write about two changes in rural society after the
Independence.

24. (a) What is the Chipko Movement?

Or

(b) Write on the impact of land reforms during the
colonial period.

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25. (a) Write on the Land Ceiling Act.

Or

(b) What is a civil society?

26. (a) Write on the social consequences of the Green
Revolution in India.

Or

(b) Write on the issue of farmers’ suicide.

( PART : B—DESCRIPTIVE )
( Marks : 24 )

Answer the following questions : 6×4=24

27. (a) Explain the features of the caste system.

Or

(b) Write on the Westernization as a process of social
change.

28. (a) Write on the different types of family.

Or

(b) Explain the types of social movement.

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29. (a) Write on the main objectives of the Dalit movement.
Or

(b) Write a note on the impact of Sanskritization on
Indian society.

30. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the
questions that follow :
The family is an integral part of our lives. The structure of
the family can be studied both as a social institution in
itself and also in its relationship to other social
institutions of society. In itself, a family can be defined as
nuclear or extended. On the basis of authority, family can
be male-headed or female-headed.
Studies have shown how diverse family forms are found in
different societies. With regard to the rule of residence,
some societies are matrilocal in their marriage and family
customs while others are patrilocal. 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. However, it is to be noted that
matriarchy (female dominance) unlike patriarchy (male
dominance) has been a theoretical rather than an
empirical concept as there is no historical or
anthropological evidence of matriarchy—i.e., societies
where women exercise dominance. There do exist
matrilineal societies where women inherit property from
their mothers but do not exercise control over it. Khasi
matriliny provides an example of the distinction between
matriliny and matriarchy.
Questions :

(a) How can the structure of the family be studied? 1

(b) How can families be categorized based on authority? 1

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(c) What forms can families take based on residence? 1

(d) With regard to the rules of inheritance, what are the
two forms of family? 1

(e) Why is matriarchy considered more theoretical rather
than an empirical concept? 1

(f) Give an example of matriliny which distinguishes
between matriliny and matriarchy. 1

HHH

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