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Sample Paper – 2009
Class – XII
Subject –SOCIOLOGY
MAXIMUM MARKS 100
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1. Questions 1 to 15 are of 2 marks each and they are to be answered in about 30 words
2. Questions 16 to 25 are of 4 marks each and they are to be answered in about 80 words.
3. Questions 26 to 30 are of 6 marks each and they are to be answered in about 200
words.
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Complete the following statements:
1. Invisible hand refers to----------------------2. Communalism refers to …….
3. Privileged Minorities are………………………..
4. Participatory democracy is a system…………….
5. Alienation in the context of industrial work refers to
6. Disinvestment refers to…..
7. Quantitative restrictions on imports are……..
8. Silk route refers to……………………….
9. Liberalisation the term refers to……
10. Electronic economy refers to………………………..
11. Soap opera is………………………..
12. 12 Revolutionary social reform movements refer to………….
13. 13 The Naxalite struggle refers to……….
14. 14 Demands of Dalit movements are ………..
15. 15 Second phase of the Indian women’s movement refers to……..
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Answer the following questions:
16. What is meant by Birth rate and Death rate? Explain why birth rate is
relatively slow to fall while the death rate declines much faster?
17. Explain the basic argument of the demographic transition. Why is the
transition period associated with a population explosion?
18. What are the major issues of Adivasis today?
19. How are OBCs different from SCs?
20. What is meant by cultural diversity? Why is India considered to be a
very diverse country?
21. Write a critical essay on Sanskritization?
22. Write short notes on rites and Secularization.
23. What is circulation of labour? Explain its impacts.
24. How did globalization lead to suicide of formers in India?
25. Indian industrialization is different from western model-discuss.
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III.Answer the following questions:
26. What changes did colonialism bring about in the caste system?
27. In what ways did the Indian economy change after the coming of
colonialism?
28. Explain the impacts of industrialization in India?
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29. Write an essay on the ways that the Indian constitution touches peoples`
every day life?
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30. Read the passage and answer the following questions.
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Indian film songs and commercials were considered low culture and not
promoted. So Indian listeners tuned their short wave radio sets to Ceylon and to radio
Goa in order to enjoy Indian film music, commercials and other entertainment fare.
The popularity of these broadcasts in India spurred radio listening and the sale of
radio sets. When purchasing a radio set, the buyer would invariably confirm with the
vendor that the set could be tuned to radio Ceylon or Radio Goa.
a) Name the commercial broadcasts of AIR and Why Ceylon and Goa broadcasts
were more liked by Indians?
b) What is transistor revolution? And how does it lead to popularization of Radio?
SOCIOLOGY SAMPLE PAPER--II
CLASS XII
MAXIMUM MARKS 100
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
1. Questions 1 to 15 are of 2 marks each and they are to be answered in about 30 words
2. Questions 16 to 25 are of 4 marks each and they are to be answered in about 80 words.
3. Questions 26 to 30 are of 6 marks each and they are to be answered in about 200
words.
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Complete the following statements:
1. Secularism means………….
2. Community identity is …….
3. Status symbol means-------------------------------------------------4. Nyayapanchayats are………………
5. Reasons for Bombay mill strike were………..
6. Time slavery in IT sector is…….
7. Globalization of finance refers to……………….
8. The weightless economy refers to………………..
9. The transnational corporations are ………………..
10. International division of labour refers to…………….
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11. Transistor revolution refers to …………………
12. Telangana and Tebhaga movement refer to………..
13. Chipko movement refers to………….
14. Redemptive social movement refers to………….
15. Counter social reform movement refers to………………….
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II. Answer the following questions:
16. What is meant by sex ratio? What are some of the implications of
declining sex ratio?
17. What is meant by Age structure? Why is relevant for economic
development and economic growth?
18. What are the major issues taken up by the women`s movement
over its history?
19. In what sense can one say that disability is as much a social as a
physical thing?
20. Why do minorities need protection from the State( government)?
21. Westernization is just about adoption of western attire and life styleDiscuss
22. Write short notes on caste and secularization.
23. What were the social consequences of green revolution in India?
24. How was the rural society transformed after the independence?
25. How has liberalization affected employment pattern in India?
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Answer the following questions:
26. What are some of the different forms that the family can take?
27. In your opinion will the long term benefits of liberalization exceeds its
costs?
28. What were the structural changes unleashed by British colonialism
in India?
29. Interest groups and political parties are part and parcel of a functioning
democracy-discuss.
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30. Read the passage and answer the following questions:
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According to recently published data of national readership study the largest growth
in readership has been in Hindi belt. Indian language dailies as a whole have grown
substantially in the last year from 191 million readers to 203.6 million readers. The
readership of English dailies on the other hand has stagnated at around 21 million.
Hindi dailies Deinik Jagran and Dainik Bhsakar are heading the list. The times of India
is the only English daily with a readership of over five million .Of the 18 dailies which
are in five million club , six are in Hindi, three are in Tamil, two each in Gujarati,
Malayalam and Marathi and one each in Bengali, Telugu and English.
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a) What are the reasons of this amazing growth of Indian language newspapers?
b) What are the strategies the language news papers follow to attract the readers?
SOCIOLOGY SAMPLE PAPER --III
CLASS XII
MAXIMUM MARKS 100
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
1. Questions 1 to 15 are of 2 marks each and they are to be answered in about 30 words
2. Questions 16 to 25 are of 4 marks each and they are to be answered in about 80 words.
3. Questions 26 to 30 are of 6 marks each and they are to be answered in about 200
words.
I.
Complete the following statements:
1. Liberalization means……………………………….
2. The term nation states denotes……………
3. The policies of assimilation and integration refer to …………….
4. Representative democracy is……….
5. Sub contracting system is …………….
6. Introduction of Assembly line leads to ………………
7. Corporate culture refers to……………………
8. Kupamanduka in reference to globalization of culture is…………..
9. Globalisation of employment refers to
10. Homogenisation of culture refers to …………….
11. Privatisation of radio stations refers to………
12. Theory of relative deprivation refers to………….
13. Resource mobilization theory refers to…………
14. Reformist social movement refers to…….
15. New formers movement refers to ……..
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II.Answer the following questions:
16. Why did Malthus believe that famines and epidemics that cause
mass deaths were inevitable?
17. Which are the states still have more population growth? What could
be some of the reasons for the over growth of population?
18. Describe some of the policies designed to address caste inequality?
19. What are the major issues of women today?
20. The linguistic reorganization of states helped and harmed India-How?
21. What are the cultural aspects of India which are being westernized?
22. Write short notes on gender and Sanskritisation.
23. What are the measures the government has taken to protect the landless
agricultural labourers.
24. What were the land reforms undertaken after the Indian independence?
25. How is work carried out in private industries?
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III.Answer the following questions:
26. What are some of the rules that caste system imposes?
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27. Explain the meaning of commoditization and consumption with examples. 6
28. How has capitalism impacted our cultural and political lives?
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29. Explain powers and responsibilities of Panchayats.
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30. Read the passage and answer the following questions:
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Soap Oberas are stories that are serialized. They are individual stories may come to
an end and different characters appear and disappear, but the soap itself has no ending
until it is taken off the air completely. Soap Operas presume a history, which the
regular viewer knows- he or she becomes familiar with the characters, with their
personalities and their experiences.
a) What are the impacts of coming of international television companies?
b) How does Doordarshan expand its television network?
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