CBSE Class 12 Sociology Sample Paper 2023

SECTION A

1. “Famines were also a major and recurring source of increased mortality.” Which of the following is not a cause of famines?
a) Continuing poverty and malnutrition in an agro-climatic environment.
b) Inadequate means of transport and communication.
c) Failure of entitlements
d) Increasing birth rates

Answer : D

2. Assertion(A): The Population Pyramid shows a bulge in the middle age groups, due to opportunity provided by the demographic structure.
Reason(R): This is due to high birth rate in the middle age groups.
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 : C

3. The interaction of the tribal communities with the mainstream has generally been on terms unfavourable for the tribals. Many tribal identities today are centred on ideas of
________________ to the overwhelming force of the non-tribal word.
a) Resistance and cooperation
b) Cooperation and opposition
c) Resistance and opposition
d) Movement and opposition

Answer : C

4. Assertion(A): Tribes are pristine societies uncontaminated by civilisation:
Reason(R): Tribes should really be seen as “secondary” phenomena arising out of the exploitative and colonialist contact between pre-existing states and non-state groups like the tribals.
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

5. Which of the following make the Dominant Castes dominant?
I. small population
II. land rights
III. intermediate caste
IV. decisive role in regional politics
a) I. and II.
b) I. and III.
c) II., III., IV.
d) I. and IV.

Answer : C

6. The __________ family is often seen as symptomatic of India.
a) Nuclear
b) Patriarchal
c) Patrilineal
d) Extended

Answer : D

7. The person who is refused a job because of his/her caste may be told that he/she was less qualified than others and the selection was done purely on merit. This is an example of a) Discrimination
b) Social stratification
c) Egalitarianism
d) Stereotype

Answer : A

8. Person from a well-off family can afford expensive higher education. Someone with influential relatives and friends may – through access to good advice, recommendations or information –manage to get a well-paid job.
Which of the following is true in the given context?
I. There are multiple forms of capital.
II. Different forms of capital cannot be converted into the other.
III. The forms of capital overlap.
a) I. is false
b) I. and II. are true
c) I. and III. are true
d) I., II. and III. are true

Answer : C

9. Historically, states have tried to establish and enhance their political legitimacy through nation-building strategies. They sought to secure ... the loyalty and obedience of their citizens through policies of assimilation or integration. Attaining these objectives was not easy, especially in a context of cultural diversity where citizens, in addition to their identifications with their country, might also feel a strong sense of identity with their community – ethnic, religious, linguistic and so on.
Two nation building strategies used werea) Assimilation and integration
b) Assimilation and sanskritisation
c) Integration and sanskritisation
d) Westernisation and sanskritisation

Answer : A

10. The challenge is in reinvigorating India’s commitment to practices
a) Pluralism
b) Institutional accommodation
c) Conflict resolution through democratic means
d) All of the above

Answer : D

11. While a few villages are totally absorbed in the process of expansion, only the land of many others, excluding the inhabited area, is used for urban development…
The growth of ____________ cities accounts for the third type of urban impact on the surrounding villages.
a) Metropolitan
b) Small
c) Ghetto
d) Heritage

Answer : A

12. With the growth of _____________ movement in the 20th century, there was an attempt in several Indian languages to drop Sanskrit words and phrases.
a) Brahminical
b) Anti-Brahminical
c) Women’s
d) Tribal

Answer : B

13. Which of the following is not a result of contract farming?
a) It disengages many people from the production process.
b) Makes their own indigenous knowledge of agriculture irrelevant.
c) It is ecologically sustainable
d) Caters primarily to the production of elite items

Answer : C

14. Assertion(A): Members of low ranked caste groups had to provide labour for a fixed number of days per year to the village zamindar.
Reason(R): Lack of resources and dependence on the landed caste for economic and social support meant that many working poor were tied to landowners in hereditary labour relationships.
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. Women are also emerging as the main source of agricultural labour leading to ______________ labour force.
a) Feminization of agriculture
b) Womanisation of agriculture
c) Reformation of agriculture
d) Restoration of agriculture

Answer : A

16. “The spate of farmers’ suicides that has been occurring in different parts of the country since 1997–98 can be linked to the ‘agrarian distress’ caused by structural changes in agriculture and changes in economic and agricultural policies.
Which of the following is not a reason for agrarian distress?
a) Changed cropping pattern
b) Changing patterns of landholdings
c) Heavy migration to cities
d) Shift to cash crops

Answer : C

17. In outsourcing, work is allocated by _________________countries to __________ countries.
a) Developed, developing
b) Underdeveloped, developed
c) Developing, underdeveloped
d) Developing, developed

Answer : A

18. Assertion(A): Earlier architects and engineers had to be skilled draughtsmen, now the computer does a lot of the work for them.
Reason(R): The use of machinery deskills workers.
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

19. ‘Stand Up India Scheme’ and ‘Make in India’ are programmes that will help realise the
a) Benefits of high dependency ratio
b) Demographic dividend
c) Benefit of high death rate
d) Benefit of high fertility rate

Answer : B

20. Assertion(A): In Modern Foods, 60% of the workers were forced to retire in the first five years.
Reason(R): This was due to complacency in work.
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 : C