SECTION-A
1. Very few people who relax on their day off realise that this holiday is the outcome of a long struggle by workers. That the work-day should not exceed eight hours, that men and women should be paid equally
for doing the same work, that workers are entitled to social security and pension, has not come about automatically.(KNOW) _______________________ have shaped the world we live in and continue to do so.
a) Social movements
b) dialogue
c) public conference
d) confrontation
2. An average work day has 10-12 hours and it is not uncommon for employees to stay overnight in the office (known as a ‘night out’), when faced with a project deadline. Long working hours are central to
the industry’s ‘work culture’. This phenomenon is referred to as __________________ in IT sector.(APP)
3. …Who are these women you give such names to? Whose womb did you take your birth in? Who carried the killing burden of you for nine months? Who was the saint who made you the light in her eye,
…(KNOW) _____________ wrote these lines.
4. A) The land reforms took away rights from the erstwhile claimants, the upper castes who were ______________ in the sense that they played no part in the agricultural economy other than claiming
their rent.(KNOW)
a) Tenants
b) Absentee landlords
c) Dominant caste
d) Political leaders
OR
4. B) Mark the statement as true or false.
Indian independence in 1947 marked a big and complete break with the colonial past.
5. “The theory of Demographic Transition suggests that population growth is linked to overall levels of economic development and that every society follows a typical pattern of development related population growth.”
Choose the incorrect statement about Demographic Transition Theory. (CREATE)
a) The growth rate in phase I and phase II are high.
b) The growth rate in phase II is high due to low death rate.
c) The growth rate in phase I and phase III are low.
d) The growth rate in phase III is approximately same as in phase I.
6. “The argument for a tribe-caste distinction was founded on an assumed cultural difference between Hindu castes, with their beliefs in purity and pollution and hierarchical integration, and ‘animist’ tribals
with their more egalitarian and kinship-based modes of social organisation.”
Which of the following is not a characteristic of tribal communities? (CREATE)
a) Egalitarian organisation
b) Kinship based mode of social organisation
c) Animists
d) Organised religion
7. “Peasant movements or agrarian struggles have taken place from pre-colonial days. Some of these issues under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi became partially linked to the Independence movement.”
A nation-wide non-tax campaign that took place in Surat in 1928, as a part of the non-cooperative movement is referred to as_________________.(KNOW)
8. Mark the statement as true or false.
Karl Marx propounded the convergence thesis? (KNOW)
9. Mark the statement as true or false.(App)
The religious or cultural minorities are politically vulnerable, irrespective of their economic or social position.
10. Social inequality is not the outcome of _____________ differences between people, but is produced by the society in which they live. (APP)
11. A) The proportion of persons in different age groups relative to the total population is known as _________.(KNOW)
OR
11. B) The ______________ is the number of women who die in childbirth per 1000 live births.
12. “When we say that India is a nation of great cultural diversity, we mean that there are many different types of social groups and communities living here.”
The term diversity stands for-(Appl)
a) Inequalities rather than equalities
b) Differences rather than inequalities
c) Difference and inequality both
d) Neither difference nor inequality
13. “‘Untouchability’ is an extreme and particularly vicious aspect of the caste system that prescribes stringent social sanctions against members of casted located at the bottom of the purity-pollution scale.”
Which of the following is not a gesture of deference for untouchable to follow? (Appl)
a) Taking off headgear
b) Wearing clean clothes
c) Carrying footwear in hand
d) Standing with bowed head
14. Correct the given statement.(APPL) There is no correlation between disability and poverty.
15. For many centuries until the third quarter of the 19th century the Persian influence was the dominant one and not Sanskritic influence in Punjab. Mark the statement as true or false.(App)
16. The advent of the railways in Bengal saw the conversion of British forest policy in Assam from ____________________ to active intervention.(App)
SECTION-B
17. A) A few work harder than those who are located at the lower ranks of society. As a South American proverb says-“If hard labour were really such a good thing, the rich would keep it all for themselves!”
Defend this proverb using an example. (CREATE)
OR
17. B) “Often we discuss social exclusion and discrimination as though they pertain to differential economic resources alone. This however is only partially true.”
Determine using two examples that social exclusion and discrimination do not pertain to differential economic resources alone.
18. Why were land reforms necessary to transform India’s agrarian structure? (Know)
19. A) Identify the reasons why cultural diversity presents tough challenges. (CREATE)
OR
19. B) “The religious or cultural minorities-regardless of their economic or social position-are politically vulnerable.” Justify.
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