MBOSE Class 12 Question Paper 2020 for Sociology

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2020

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 : 2×14=28

1. What is demography?

2. What is the ‘age structure of the population’ ?

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

4. What is sanskritization?

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5. Define discrimination.

6. Who was Dr. B. R. Ambedkar?

7. Define secularism.

8. Define westernization.

9. What is Panchayati Raj?

10. What are Pressure Groups?

11. What is land reform?

12. What is home-based work?

13. What is the main aim of World Trade Organization?

14. What is contract farming system?

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

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

15. (a) Give the characteristics of caste.

Or
(b) What are the forms of family?

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16. (a) Write on the policy of globalization.
Or
(b) Write on the policy of isolation.

17. (a) Mention two issues giving rise to Tribal Movement.
Or
(b) Mention two reasons for the decline of sex ratio in
India.

18. (a) Write a note on Women’s Movement.
Or
(b) Write a note on Chipko Movement.

19. (a) Briefly discuss modern mass media.
Or
(b) How do people find jobs?

20. Discuss capitalism as a social system.

21. Write a note on civil society.

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

Answer the following questions : 6×4=24

22. Write on the three different urban impacts according to
M. S. A. Rao.

23. What are the impacts of land reforms after India’s
Independence?

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24. Show the relationship between agrarian distress and
farmers’ suicide.

25. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the
questions that follow :

“Another significant change in rural society that is linked
to the commercialization of agriculture has been the
growth of migrant agricultural labour. As ‘traditional’
bonds of patronage between labourers or tenants and
landlords broke down, and as the seasonal demand for
agricultural labour increased in prosperous Green
Revolution regions such as the Punjab, a pattern of
seasonal migration emerged in which thousands of
workers circulate between their home villages and more
prosperous areas where there is more demand for labour
and higher wages. Labourers migrate also due to the
increasing inequalities in rural areas from the
mid-1990s, which have forced many households to
combine multiple occupations to sustain themselves. As
a livelihood strategy, men migrate out periodically in
search of work and better wages, while women and
children are often left behind in their villages with
elderly grandparents. Migrant workers come mainly from
drought-prone and less-productive regions, and they go
to work for part of the year on farms in the Punjab and
Haryana, or on brick kilns in UP or construction sites in
cities such as New Delhi or Bangalore. These migrant
workers have been termed ‘footloose labour’ by Jan
Breman, but this does not imply freedom.”

Questions :

(a) Mention the change that is linked to commercializa-
tion of agriculture. 1

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(b) Why did a pattern of seasonal migration emerge? 1

(c) From which regions migrant workers came? 1

(d) Why did the rural labourers migrate from the mid-
1990s? 1

(e) Mention the livelihood strategy of the migrant
labourers. 1

(f) What term Jan Breman used to describe migrant
workers? 1

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