Class 12 Question Paper 2023-24 Sociology (Half Yearly)

2023-24
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Half Yearly Exam 2023-24
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Class - XII Subject – Sociology
Time – 3 Hours Maximum Marks - 80

General Instructions
1. The question paper is divided into four sections.
2. There are 35 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section A includes question No. 1-16. These are MCQ type questions. As per the question,
there can be one answer.
4. Section B includes question No.17-25. These are very short answer type questions carrying 2
marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 30 words.
5. Section C includes question No. 26-32. They are short answer type questions carrying 4
marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 80 words.
6. Section D includes question No. 33-35. They are long answer type questions carrying 6
marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 200 words each.
7. Question no. 33 is to be answered with the help of the given graphics. Question no. 35 is to
be answered with the help of the given passage.

SECTION - A
1. Assertion (A): Malthus was accepted by liberal and Marxist scholars for asserting that poverty
was caused by population growth.
Reason (R): The critics argued that problems like poverty and starvation were caused by the
unequal distribution of economic resources rather than by population growth.
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
d) A is false but R is true.

2. The first national family planning policy was announced in the year _______
a) 1949
b) 1952
c) 1975
d) 1959
3. Tick out that process, which was not in existence during colonial rule:

a) Sanskritization
b) Westernization
c) Secularization
d) Modernization

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4. Which of the following laws has been enacted by Government of India to fix the limit of
agricultural land?
a) Land Ceiling Act
b) Land Consolidation Law
c) Land Renewal Law
d) Benami Transfer Law
5. The classification of four Varnas is approximately how many years old?
a) 3000 years
b) 4000 years
c) 2000 years
d) 5000 years

6. Which of the following is true for caste?
a) It is a choice
b) It is endogamous
c) It is not linked to occupation
d) It is based on egalitarianism
7. Assertion (A): Prejudices are often grounded in stereotypes.
Reason (R): Prejudices refer to preconceived opinions or attitudes held by members of one
group towards another.
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
d) A is false but R is true.

8. Many of our cultural practices and patterns can be traced to our agrarian backgrounds. Which
of the festival is not a part of it?
a) Basant Panchami.
b) Baisakhi
c) Bihu
d) Holi
9. Identities which are determined by the accidents of birth and do not involve any choice on the
part of the individuals concerned are known as ________
a) Subjective
b) Ascriptive
c) Descriptive
d) None of these

10. Assertion (A): Castes were traditionally linked to occupation.
Reason (R): A person born into a caste could only practice the occupation associated with that
caste, so that occupations were hereditary, i.e. passed on from generation to generation.
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.

d) A is false but R is true.

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11. Assertion (A): In terms of the Nation-State relationship with community identities, the Indian
case fits neither the assimilation nor the integration.
Reason (R): The constitution declares the state to be a secular state but religion, language and
other such factors are not banished.
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) Both A and R are false.
d) A is true and R is false
12. Changes occur in social relations and social institutions are called .... .
a) Cultural change
b) Structural change
c) Constructional change
d) Political change
13. Our Parliament, legal and educational system are based on which model?
a) American model
b) British model
c) Indigenous model
d) French model
14. Sociologist Satish Saberwal elaborates upon the modern context by sketching some aspects to
the modern framework of change in colonial India. Identify them.
I. Modes of communication
II. Forms of organisation
III. Nature of ideas
a) Only I
b) Only II
c) I and III
d) All of these
15. Which journal opposed the practice of polygamy among muslims while others orthodox
muslims supported?
a) Tahsib-e-Niswan
b) Niswan-e-Urdu
c) AjnabiDuniya
d) Alamgir
16. The 19th century reforms initiated a period of -------- .
a) Questioning
b) Reinterpretation
c) Intellectual and social growth
d) All of the above

SECTION –B
17. Explain the term Dominant caste.
OR
Define kinship.

18. What is social about social inequality?
19. What do you mean by Apartheid?

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20. What does the term Cultural Diversity mean?
21. Most states feared that the recognition of such difference would lead to social fragmentation
and prevent the creation of a harmonious society. In short, such identity politics was
considered a threat to state unity. In addition, accommodating these differences is politically
challenging, so many states have resorted to either suppressing these diverse identities or
ignoring them on the political domain.
Based on the given paragraph answer the following question.
Why India is not a full-fledged Integrationist Nation?
22. What do you understand by ‘Civil Society’?
23. How are Capitalism and Colonialism linked process?
OR
The impact of English language has been many sided and paradoxical in India. Discuss.
24. What was the impact of western education in India?
25. What is Secularisation of Caste?

SECTION_C

26. What has really alarmed demographers, policymakers, social activists and concerned citizens
is the drastic fall in the child sex ratio. Age specific sex ratios began to be computed in 1961.
The sex ratio for the 0-6 years age group. (Known as the juvenile or child sex ratio) has
generally been substantially higher than the overall sex ratio for all age groups, but it has been
falling very sharply.
What are the various factors responsible for the decline in the child sex ratio?
27. Discuss Casteism in India.
OR
Explain main features of caste.
28. How have tribes been classified in India?
29. To diehards who have developed a kind of fanaticism against minority protection, I would
like to say two things. One is that minorities are an explosive force which, if it erupts, can
blow up the whole fabric of the state. The history of Europe bears ample an appalling
testimony to this fact. The other things that the minorities in India have agreed to. Place their
existence in the hands of the majority.
Read the given passage and answer the question that follows.

What is a minority? Why do minorities need protection by the State?

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30. How colonialism influenced the mobility of Indian people?
OR
How did colonial laws favour the owners and managers of Tea industry?

31. Explain the emergence of the social reform movements in India in the 19 th and 20th century.

32. After India became independent, Nehru and his policy advisers embarked on a programme of
planned development that focused on agrarian reform as well as industrialization. The
policymakers were responding to the dismal agricultural situation in India and that time this
was marked by low productivity, dependence on imported food grains and the intense
poverty of a large section of the rural. Population. They felt that. Major reform in the agrarian
structure, and especially in the landholding system and the distribution of land, was
necessary if agriculture were to progress.
On the basis of above passage answer the following question.
Discuss the impact of land reforms on Agrarian structure of India.

SECTION – D
33.

Based on the given population Pyramids of Uttar Pradesh and Kerala for the year 2026,
answer the following questions.
(A) In the Kerala’s population pyramid what does a bulge in the middle reflects ?

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(B) What do you infer by observing Uttar Pradesh’s population about 5 – 15 years age
group?
(C) What factors are responsible for the difference in the shape of these two population
pyramids ?

34. What do you understand by Green revolution? Identify and discuss negative social effects of
Green Revolution. [2+4]
OR
Migration and lack of job security create poor working and living conditions of migrant
labour. Explain with reference to the circulation of labour in India.
35. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
State is indeed a very crucial institution when it comes to the management of cultural
diversity in a nation. Although it claims to represent the nation, the state can also become
somewhat independent of the nation and its people. To the extent that the state structure -
the legislature, bureaucracy, judiciary, armed forces, police and other arms of the state
becomes insulated from the people, it also has the potential of turning authoritarian. An
authoritarian state is the opposite of a democratic state. It is a state in which the people have
no voice and those in power are not accountable to anyone.
1. How regionalism can be reduced? [2]
2. In your opinion, has the linguistic reorganisation of states helped or harmed India? [4]

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