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QUESTION PAPER

2022 BOARD EXAM

CBSE CLASS 12-HUMANITIES SOCIOLOGY Board Paper 2022 — Set 1

2022

SOCIOLOGY

CLASS 12-HUMANITIES

CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2022 SOCIOLOGY

CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2022

SOCIOLOGY

(Solved)

Time allowed : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 22

General Instructions :

Read the following instructions carefully and follow them :

  1. This question paper contains 8 questions. All questions are compulsory.
  2. This question paper is divided into 4 sections.
  3. Section A – questions number 1 to 1 are case based questions
  4. Section B – questions number 2 to 5 are very short answer
  5. Section C – questions number 6 to 7 are short answer
  6. Section D – questions number 8 to 8 are long answer
  7. There is no overall choice given in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been provided in few questions.
  8. Use of calculator is NOT allowed.

Section A

Question 1. Ways of thinking ..... John Stuart Mill soon after its publication became a text in Indian colleges. Indians came to know about Magna Carta, and the struggle for liberty and equality in Europe and America.

(1) Mention the kind of Westernization being referred to in the given source.

[1 Marks]

Section B

Question 2.

A social movement requires sustained collective action over time. Such action is often directed against the state and takes the form of demanding changes in state policy or practice. Spontaneous and disorganised protest cannot be called a social movement.

(a) Write any two features of a social movement.

(b)Give an example of a Dalit Movement.

[2 Marks]
Question 3.

The varied social reform movements did have common themes. Yet there were also significant differences. State any two differences.

[2 Marks]
Question 4.

"For Indian nationalists, the issue of economic exploitation under colonial rule was a central issue".

How did Indian nationalists promote industrialisation in the early years of independence ?

[2 Marks]
Question 5.

"Sanskritisation seems to justify a model that rests on inequality and exclusion". Give two reasons to support this statement.

[2 Marks]

Section C

Question 6.

How did commercialisation of agriculture lead to circulation of labour ?

[4 Marks]
Question 7.

Mention the positive and negative aspects of 'contract farming' system.

[4 Marks]

Section D

Question 8. Are ecological movements new or old social movements? Explain the above using the Chipko Movement as an example.
[6 Marks]

Paper Details

CBSE Board Exam 2022

Class

CLASS 12-HUMANITIES

Subject

SOCIOLOGY

Year

2022

Set

Set 1

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