MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2018 for Sociology

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2018 2. A status is simply a position in society or in a
group.
SOCIOLOGY
( Theory ) 3. Schooling is a non-formal process.

Full Marks : 80
4. The term conflict implies clash of interests.
Time : 3 hours
B. Choose the correct answer:
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the
questions
5. Who is the founder of Sociology
General Instructions : (a) Karl Marx
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script provided. (b) Herbert Spencer
(ii) Answer all Questions serially according to the ‘Part’
(c) Auguste Comte
and ‘Section’.

(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place.
6. Participant observation is often called

PART –– A (a) Field work

SECTION – I (b) Survey

( OBJECTIVE ) (c) Interview

Answer the following questions by selecting the correct
7. A welfare state involves
option.
(a) Capitalist economy
A. Write True or False (T/F)
110  10 (b) Socialist economy
1. The study of human behaviour in contexts of
face-to-face interaction is Macrosociology. (c) Mixed economy

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C. Fill in the blank with a suitable word. 8. What are the effects of Global warming?

8. Nature shapes , society shapes nature. 9. Name the three revolutions which paved the way for
the emergence of sociology.
9. is the common understanding which is
learnt and developed through social interaction
with others in society.
SECTION – I I I
10. Norms are implicit rules, laws are rules.
( SHORT ANSWER )

Answer the following questions in not more 4  7  28
SECTION – I I than eight sentences.

( VERY SHORT ANSWER )
1. Show how Sociology and Psychology are related? 4
Answer the following questions in not more than five
sentences each. 2. What are the characteristics of a social group? 4
2  9  18

1. What is a reference group? Or

2. Define work. What are Primary and Secondary groups? 4

3. What are the important agencies of socialisation? 3. What is an ascribed status and achieved status? 4

4. What is Survey?. Or

5. Define structural change. How is sociological study of religion different from a
religious study of religion? 4
6. What is Contestation?
4. What are the three dimensions of culture? 4
7. What is Gentrification?

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5. What are the advantages of ‘Interview’? 4 3. How does class struggle change society according to
Marx? 6
6. Describe a slum? 4
Or
7. What are the basic features of Bureaucracy? 4 Describe Durkheim’s view on Mechanical solidarity and
Organic solidarity. 6
Or
4. Read the following passage carefully and answer the
What is a welfare state according to A. R. Desai? 4
questions given below: 6
When men migrate to urban areas, women have
to plough and manage the agricultural fields. Many a
PART –– B time they become the sole providers of their families.
Such households are known as female headed
( DESCRIPTIVE ) households. Widowhood too might create such familial
arrangement. Or it may happen when men get
( Marks : 24 ) remarried and stop sending remittance to their wives,
children and other dependents. In such a situation,
women have to ensure the maintenance of the family.
Answer the following questions : 6  4  24 Among the Kolams, a tribal community in south-
eastern Maharashtra and northern Andhra Pradesh, a
female headed household is an accepted norm.
1. Discuss ‘Caste’ as a form of social stratification. 6
1. What work do the women do when their husbands
Or migrate to urban areas? 1
2. Who support the family? 1
What are the different forms of marriage? 6
3. Who are the Kolams? 1
2. Write on the relation between environment and social 4. What is the accepted norm of the Kolams? 1
change? 6
5. What is female headed households? 1
Or 6. Give one reason which creates female headed
household. 1
Briefly describe in words the different types of pollution. 6 

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