CBSE Class 12 Sociology Boards 2024 Sample Paper Solved

SECTION A Marks

1. Assertion (A): Modern industry created all kinds of new jobs for which there were no caste rules.
Reason(R): Urbanisation and the conditions of collective living in the cities made it difficult for caste-segregated patterns of social interaction to survive.
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 and R is true.
Answer : A

2. Which of the following stages, as per the Theory of Demographic
Transition, is that of high population growth?
a) First Stage
b) Both first and second stage
c) Second Stage
d) Third Stage
Answer : C

3. Assertion (A): Castes are not only unequal to each other in ritual terms they are also supposed to be complementary and noncompeting groups.
Reason (R): Each caste has its own place in the system which cannot be taken by any other caste.
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 and R is true.
Answer : A

4. Which of the following reasons are responsible for the invisibility of the caste system in the upper castes and upper middle class?
a) Policy of reservation
b) Special Programmes for upper caste
c) Both a and b
d) Education and Employment in Private Sector
Answer : D

5. Assertion (A): By the 1970s all the major definitions of tribe were shown to be faulty.
Reason (R): It was pointed out that the tribe-peasantry distinctions did not hold in terms of any of the commonly advanced criteria: size, isolation, religion and means of livelihood.
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 and R is true.
Answer : A

6. “Considering from an urban point of view, the rapid growth in urbanization shows that the town or city has been acting as a magnet
for the rural population.” Choose the incorrect statement about urbanization in India?
a) Rural- to- Urban migration has increased due to decline in common property resources.
b) Urban areas are a decisive force in terms of political dynamics.
c) People go to cities in search of work.
d) Cities offer anonymity to the poor and oppressed class.
Answer : B

7. In which ways Advises struggles are different from Dalit struggle?
a) They were not discriminated against like the Dalits.
b) Their social and economic conditions were better than the Dalits
c) They did not face social exclusion like the Dalits.
d) Advises were concentrated in contagious areas and could demand statehood
Answer : D

8. Stereotypes fix whole groups into single_______ categories, they refuse to recognize the_______ across individuals and across context or across time.
a) Homogeneous, variation
b) Heterogeneous, similarities
c) Broad, similarities
d) Diverse, differences
Answer : A

9. Cultural diversity can present tough challenges. Which of the following is not a reason for challenge?
a) It can arouse intense passions among its members and mobilise large numbers of people
b) Economic and social inequalities among the communities.
c) Equal distribution of scarce resources- like river water, jobs or governments funds.
d) Injustices suffered by one community provoke opposition from same communities.
Answer : C

10. Policies promoting integration involvea)
a) Outright suppression of identities of groups which are in minority.
b) Complete erosion of cultural differences between groups.
c) Elimination of ethno-national and cultural differences from the public arena.
d) All of the above.
Answer : C

11. Assertion (A): Urbanisation in the colonial period saw the formation of new urban centres.
Reason (R): These urban centres were designed to functions as trading posts alone.
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 and R is true.
Answer : D

12. Assertion (A): The impact of Sanskritisation is many sided.
Reason (R): Its influence can be seen in language, literature, ideology, music, dance, drama,style of life and ritual.
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 and R is true.
Answer : A

13. What is the meaning of the term Begar in the Indian agrarian context?
a) Bonded labour
b) Free Labour
c) Landlords
d) Tenant
Answer : A

14. Assertion (A): In most of the states, land ceiling act proved to be toothless.
Reason(R): There were many loopholes and most landowners were able to escape from having their surplus land taken over by the state.
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 and R is true.
Answer : A

15. Most of the New Year festival in different regions of India such as Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Bihu in Assam, Baisakhi in Punjab and Ugadi in Karnataka to name just a few actually celebrate the main harvest season and herald the beginning of a new agricultural season.
Assertion (A): There is a close connection between agriculture & culture.
Reason(R): Many of our cultural practices and patterns can be traced to our agrarian background.
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 and R is true.
Answer : A

16. Assertion (A): The rural in Kerala is a mixed economy.
Reason(R): The economy in Kerala integrates agriculture with a wide network of retail sales and services where a large number of
families are dependent on remittances from abroad.
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 and R is true.
Answer : A

17. Major difference between developing and developed countries is in the number of people in ___________salaried employment.
a) Daily Wages
b) Regular
c) Irregular
d) Both b) & c)
Answer : B

18. Many items like paper and wood products, glass and ceramics were reserved for the ________sector by the government.
a) Medium- scale
b) Large- scale
c) Small- scale
d) Both b) &c)
Answer : C

19. Before Independence Industries were located mainly in which types of cities?
a) Metropolitan
b) Port
c) Town
d) Urban
Answer : B

20. Introduction of machinery such as tillers, tractors, threshers and harvesters led to the _______________.
a) Displacement of the service castes.
b) Greater wages for the service castes.
c) Equality in the agrarian structure.
d) Low production output.
Answer : A

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