MBOSE Class 12 Question Paper 2022 for Sociology

Total No. of Printed Pages—5
HS/XII/A/Sg/22

2022

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 is demography?

2. What are positive checks?

3. Define social inequality.

4. What is community?

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5. What is nation-state?

6. What is capitalism?

7. What is industrialization?

8. What is de-industrialization?

9. What is stereotype?

10. Who are the Adivasis?

11. What is laissez-faire?

12. What is influenza?

13. What is dependency ratio?

14. What is female infanticide?

15. What is Jajmani system?

16. What is endogamy?

17. What is disinvestment?

18. What is reservation?

19. What is dual citizenship?

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SECTION—II
( Short answer-type questions )
( Marks : 28 )

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

20. (a) How did colonialism lead to the movement of the
Indian people?
Or
(b) What is Westernization?

21. (a) Why did Nehru call the media the watchdog of
democracy?
Or
(b) What is communalism?

22. (a) What is home-based work?
Or
(b) Write about Raja Rammohan Roy’s social reform.

23. (a) What is community identity?
Or
(b) What are the types of social movements?

24. (a) Write on the theory of demographic transition.
Or
(b) What are the differences between Varna and Jati?

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25. (a) Write on the reformist social movement.
Or
(b) Write on television as an agent of mass media.

26. (a) What is commodification?
Or
(b) What is secularism?

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

Answer the following questions : 6×4=24

27. (a) Write on the agrarian structure in India.
Or
(b) Write on the transformation of rural society after
independence.

28. (a) Write on industrialization in the early years of Indian
Independence.
Or
(b) Write on the features of social stratification.

29. (a) Write on the different types of family.
Or
(b) Write on the powers and responsibilities of
Panchayats.

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30. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the
questions that follow :
Look at the crucial role that cultural consumption is
playing in the process of globalization especially in
shaping the growth of cities. Till the 1970s the
manufacturing industries used to play a major role in
the growth of cities.
Presently, cultural consumption (of art, food, fashion,
music, tourism) shapes to a large extent the growth of
cities. This is evident in the spurt in the growth of
shopping malls, multiplex cinema halls, amusement
parks, and ‘water-world’ in every major city in India.
Most significantly advertisements and the media in
general promote a culture where spending is important.
To be careful with money is no longer a virtue.
Shopping is a past time actively encouraged.
Questions :

(a) What contributes to the growth of cities today? 1

(b) What led to the growth of cities till the 1970s? 1

(c) What is included in ‘cultural consumption’? 1

(d) What is evident in every major city in India? 1

(e) What promotes the ‘culture of spending’? 1

(f) What is encouraged as a past-time? 1

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